Showing Drinking Arak Off an Ayatollah's Beard: A Journey Through the Inside-Out Worlds of Iran and Afghanistan by Nicholas Jubber
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Drinking Arak Off an Ayatollah's Beard To better understand the cultural issues and paradoxes facing Iranians and Afghans today, the author travels from the underground dance parties of Tehran to the opium dens of Afghanistan's Helmand province. Along the way he discovers traces of a vibrant, pre-Islamic Persian culture still alive and well. Full description