Hijabs, Hitchhiking and Hangovers: Lessons from Iran

Rose Carmichael

• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Year: 2024
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781035801268
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

'Are you foreign? Why would you come to Iran? Please tell your friends back home that we are nothing like the Western media.' These were among the phrases that Rose would hear almost daily in Tehran. Hijabs, Hitchhiking and Hangovers: Lessons from Iran is a coming-of-age travel adventure. At the age of 20, Rose was part of the first group of Cambridge students to study in Iran after Iran re-opened its borders to the West. Navigating Foreign Office warnings and nuclear sanctions, she was at first a rather reluctant traveller, overwhelmed by the culture clashes, language barriers and Islamic law. Through a collection of short stories, Rose tells of how she makes a home in Iran, experiences unexpected kindness and gets to grips with the Farsi language. At times amusing and at others, tragically telling of the harsh realities of Iranian society, Hijabs, Hitchhiking and Hangovers is a gripping account of self-reliance and the often dangerous impact of politics on travel abroad.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• About the Author
• Dedication
• Copyright Information ©
• Acknowledgement
• Prologue
• Lesson One
• Lesson Two
• Lesson Three
• Lesson Four
• Lesson Five
• Lesson Six
• Lesson Seven
• Lesson Eight
• Lesson Nine
• Lesson Ten
• Lesson Eleven
• Lesson Twelve
• Lesson Thirteen
• Lesson Fourteen
• Lesson Fifteen
• Lesson Sixteen
• Lesson Seventeen
• Lesson Eighteen
• Lesson Nineteen
• Lesson Twenty
• Chapter Twenty-One
• Lesson Twenty-Two
• Lesson Twenty-Three
• Lesson Twenty-Four
• Lesson Twenty-Five
• Lesson Twenty-Six
• Lesson Twenty-Seven
• Lesson Twenty-Eight
• Lesson Twenty-Nine
• Lesson Thirty
• Lesson Thirty-One
• Lesson Thirty-Two
• Lesson Thirty-Three
• Glossary of Words (Phonetic)