Showing Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran by Azadeh Moaveni

Paperback. Pub Date: 2006 Pages: 272 Publisher: PublicAffairs.US as far back as she can remember. Azadeh Moaveni has Felt at odds with her tangled identity As an Iranian-American In suburban America. Azadeh lived in two worlds . At home. she was the daughter of the Iranian exile community. serving tea. clinging to tradition. and dreaming of Tehran. Outside. she was a California girl who practiced yoga and listened to Madonna. For years. she ignored the tense stand- off between her two cultures. But college magnified the clash between Iran and America. and after graduating. she moved to Iran as a journalist. This is the story of her search for identity. between two cultures cleaved apart by a violent history. It is also the story of Iran. a restive land lost in the twilight of its revolution. Moaveni's homecoming falls in the heady days of the country's reform movement. when ...