Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran - Azadeh Moaveni • BookLikes (ISBN:1586485490)

Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran

by: Azadeh Moaveni (author)

Format: ebook

ISBN: 9781586485498 (1586485490)

Publish date: March 31st 2007

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Pages no: 272

Edition language: English

Category:

Non Fiction, Travel, Autobiography, Memoir, Biography, History, Cultural, Book Club, Religion, Biography Memoir, Islam, Iran

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A Reading Vocation rated it

9 years ago

http://laceylouwagie.booklikes.com A Reading Vocation 4.0 Book 68/100: Lipstick Jihad by Azadeh Moaveni

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I love to travel, but I hate airplanes and fear "traveler's diarrhea." I also am risk-averse, and know that, realistically, I will probably never work up the guts to travel to the more politically dangerous areas of the world even if I could scrounge up the money and vacation time to do so. It's bec...

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NinthWanderer rated it

16 years ago

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Eh. The subject matter was somewhat interesting, and the prose is competent (but not sparkling), but I found the author too detached from her own life story to make this the compelling read it should have been. I suspect she wanted to write it as a work of pure journalism, but some bean counter said...

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