Honeymoon in Tehran

Azadeh Moaveni, longtime Middle East correspondent for Time magazine, returns to Iran to cover the rise of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Living and working in Tehran, she finds a nation that openly yearns for freedom and contact with the West but whose economic grievances and nationalist spirit find an outlet in Ahmadinejad s strident pronouncements. And then the unexpected happens: Azadeh falls in love with a young Iranian man and decides to get married and start a family in Tehran. Suddenly, she finds herself navigating an altogether different side of Iranian life. As women are arrested for immodest dress and the authorities unleash a campaign of intimidation against journalists, Azadeh is forced to make the hard decision that her family s future lies outside Iran. Powerful and poignant, Honeymoon in Tehran is the harrowing story of a young woman s tenuous life in a country she thought she could change.