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==Travel==
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{{newreview
|author=Nicholas Jubber
|title=Drinking Arak off an Ayatollah's Beard
|rating=3.5
|genre=Travel
|summary=closed doors and how people really think, challenging the idea that both countries are defined only by a religious fervour and fundamentalism that is the accepted way of life. At the heart of Jubber's quest is the epic poem of Persian culture, the ''Shahnameh'' which he soon learns all Iranians know and love and in doing so he unearths a vibrant culture that preceded the conversion of Persia to Islam and with it the transformation of Persia into Iran.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0306818841</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Ian Mathie
