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Halasa doesn’t impose a “Lonely Planet”-style formulae on either of these volumes. The two works are similar insofar as each seeks to provide a platform for writers, journalists and photographers to profile facets of their respective cities in their own terms. Yet her contributors’ different sensibilities – a function of the political, demographic and cultural differences between the two countries – make the two books quite distinct.
Though some of its component parts are stronger than others, the great virtue of “Transit Tehran” is its variety. Several discussions of various Tehran neighbourhoods and what they “mean,” mingle with contemplations of the cultural ramifications of traumas like the Iran-Iraq war.
Snapshots of drug abuse and rehabilitation sit next to studies of women’s prostitution and Islamic training. Black-and-white and color spreads, capturing the broad spectrum of Iranian lives, reside alongside reproductions and discussions of work by a range of significant Iranian artists – Khosrow Hassanzadeh and Nicky Nodjoumi, Sadegh Tirafkan and Ardeshir Mohassess. As English-language primers on this very important country go, readers could do far worst than “Transit Tehran.”

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