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AZADEH MOAVENI was born in Palo Alto, California, into the lap of an Iranian diaspora community awash in nostalgia and longing for an Iran many thousands of miles away
As far back as she can remember she felt at odds with her tangled identity.
She seemed to be living in two worlds.
At home, she was a 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 Tehran as a journalist.
Upon arrival in Iran, Azadeh's exile fantasies dissolve.
She finds a country that is culturally confused, politically deadlocked, and emotionally anguished.
Her homecoming falls smack in the heady days of the reform movement, when young people demonstrated in the streets and shouted for the Islamic regime to end.
Deciding to live an approximation of a young Iranian's life, she delves deep into Tehran's edgy under-ground.
She crashes the drug-soaked parties of the upper-crust.
She visits the ski slopes, fashion shows, malls, and cafes where Iran's hedonístic and rebellious next generation mingles, inert, yet desperate for change.
As she explores the psychologies of these young people-demo-graphically, the country's future-she discovers the kitsch, hedonism, and frustration that underpin their lurching rebellion against the Islamic system.
In Lipstick Jihad, Azadeh Moaveni paints a rare portrait of Tehran, populated by a cast of young people whose exuberance and despair bring the modern reality of Iran to vivid life.
She also reveals her private struggle to build a life in a dark country, wholly unlike the luminous, saffron-tinted Iran of her imagination. Hers is the struggle of a young woman of the diaspora, searching for a homeland that may not exist.
AZADEH MOAVENI grew up in San Jose and studied politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
She won a Fulbright fellowship to Egypt, and studied Arabic at the American University in Cairo.
For three years she worked across the Middle East as a reporter for Time Magazine, before joining the Los Angeles Times to cover the Iraq war.
She lives in Beirut.
From LIPSTICK JIHAD
Today, in a quiet room in a country not far from Iran, I am finally unpacking the boxes from my years in Tehran.
As I sort through the clothes. peeling veil from veil, it is like tracing the rings of a tree trunk to tell its evolution.
The outer layers are a wash of color, dashing tones of turquoise and frothy pink, in delicate chiffons and translucent silks.
They are colors that are found in life-the color of pomegranates and pistachio, the sky and bright spring leaves-in fabrics that breathe. Underneath, as I dig down, there are dark, matte veils, long, formless robes in funeral tones of navy and black.
That is what we wore, back in 1998.
Along the way, the laws never changed.
Parliament never officially pardoned color, sanctioned the exposure of toes and waistlines.
Young women did it themselves, en masse, a slow, deliberate, widespread act of defiance.
A jihad, in the classical sense of the word: to struggle.
ISBN 1-58648-193-2
52500
9781586 481933