Persian Pilgrimages: Journieys Across Iran

Description: Afshin Molavi, a rising young journalist born in Iran and fluent in Farsi, travelled his homeland for one year. Along the way he met a wide variety of people from a wide variety of backgrounds - students, bazaar merchants, Islamic clerics, homeless children, pro-democracy writers, Islamic hardliners, feminists, and kids hooked on anything western. They all discusses matters which were important to them: unemployment, freedom, religion, poetry, history, love, and green cards. This journey documents the real feeling of a nation, not the ones seen on camera. Author Biography: AFSHIN MOLAVI holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and has reported on Iran for Reuters and the Washington Post.