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Drinking Arak off an Ayatollah'S Beard: A Journey Through the Inside-Out Worlds of Iran and Afghanistan [Audiobook] download free by Nicholas Jubber

Drinking Arak off an Ayatollah'S Beard: A Journey Through the Inside-Out Worlds of Iran and Afghanistan Audiobook download free by Nicholas Jubber
  • Listen audiobook: Drinking Arak off an Ayatollah'S Beard: A Journey Through the Inside-Out Worlds of Iran and Afghanistan
  • Author: Nicholas Jubber
  • Release date: 2010/9/21
  • Publisher: INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
  • ISBN: 9780306818844
  • Rating: 7.3 of 10
  • Votes: 572
  • Review by: Zechariah Kauffman
  • Review rating: 8.8 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/10/25
  • Duration: 4H42M5S in 256 kbps (73.6 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-15
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, FLAC, OGG, MPEG4, AIFF, WMA, MP3, ATRAC (compression CPIO, DMG, RAR, ZIP, ISO, AZW3)
  • Total pages original book: 368
  • Includes a PDF summary of 30 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 22M14S (6 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: An engrossing blend of travel writing and history, Drinking Arak off an Ayatollah's Beard traces one man's adventure-filled journey through today's Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia, and describes his remarkable attempt to make sense of the present by delving into the past. Setting out to gain insight into the lives of Iranians and Afghans today, Nicholas Jubber is surprised to uncover the legacy of a vibrant pre-Islamic Persian culture that has endured even in times of the most fanatic religious fundamentalism. Everywhere- from underground dance parties to religious shrines to opium dens- he finds powerful and unbreakable connections to a time when both Iran and Afghanistan were part of the same mighty empire, when the flame of Persian culture lit up the world. Whether through his encounters with poets and cab drivers or run-ins with'pleasure daughters' and mujahideen, again and again Jubber is drawn back to the eleventh-century Persian epic, the Shahnameh (&ldquoBook of Kings'). The poem becomes not only his window into the region's past, but also his link to its tumultuous present, and through it Jubber gains access to an Iran and Afghanistan seldom revealed or depicted: inside-out worlds in which he has tea with a warlord, is taught how to walk like an Afghan, and even discovers, on a night full of bootleg alcohol and dancing, what it means to drink arak off an Ayatollah's beard.
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Travel Writing, Middle Eastern History, Guidebooks
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  • Format: Paperback
  • Approximate value: 19.43 USD
  • Dimensions: 154x227x25mm
  • Weight: 430.91g
  • Printed by: Da Capo Press Inc
  • Published in: Cambridge, MA, United Kingdom

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