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100 1  Majd, Hooman,|eauthor. 
245 14 The Ministry of Guidance invites you to not stay :|ban 
       American family in Iran|h[Hoopla electronic resource] /
       |cHooman Majd. 
250    Unabridged. 
264  1 [United States] :|bTantor Audio,|c2013. 
264  2 |bMade available through hoopla 
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511 1  Read by Michael Kramer. 
520    It was an annus horribilis for Iran's Supreme Leader. The 
       Green Movement had been crushed, but the regime was on 
       edge, anxious lest democratic protests resurge. 
       International sanctions were dragging down the economy 
       while talk of war with the West grew. Hooman Majd was 
       there for all of it. A new father at age fifty, he decided
       to take his blonde, blue-eyed Midwestern yoga instructor 
       wife Karri and his adorable, only-eats-organic infant son 
       Khash from their hip Brooklyn neighborhood to spend a year
       in the land of his birth. It was to be a year of discovery
       for Majd, too, who had only lived in Iran as a child. The 
       book opens ominously as Majd is stopped at the airport by 
       intelligence officers who show him a four-inch thick 
       security file about his books and journalism and warn him 
       not to write about Iran during his stay. Majd brushes it 
       off-but doesn't tell Karri-and the family soon settles in 
       to the rituals of middle class life in Tehran: finding an 
       apartment (which requires many thousands of dollars, all 
       of which, bafflingly, is returned to you when you leave), 
       a secure internet connection (one that persuades the local
       censors you are in New York) and a bootlegger (self-
       explanatory). Karri masters the head scarf, but not before
       being stopped for mal-veiling, twice. They endure fasting 
       at Ramadan and keep up with Khash in a country weirdly 
       obsessed with children. All the while, Majd fields calls 
       from security officers and he and Karri eye the headlines-
       the arrest of an American "spy," the British embassy riots,
       the Arab Spring-and wonder if they are pushing their luck.
       The Ministry of Guidance Invites You to Not Stay is a 
       sparkling account of life under a quixotic authoritarian 
       regime that offers rare and intimate insight into a 
       country and its people, as well as a personal story of 
       exile and a search for the meaning of home. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
600 10 Majd, Hooman|xTravel|zIran. 
650  0 Iranian Americans|zIran|vBiography. 
650  0 Americans|zIran|vBiography. 
651  0 Iran|xPolitics and government|y1997- 
651  0 Iran|xEconomic conditions|y1997- 
651  0 Iran|xSocial conditions|y1997- 
700 1  Kramer, Michael,|enarrator. 
710 2  hoopla digital. 
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