title: Iran: Persia: Ancient and Modern (Fourth Edition)  (Odyssey Illustrated Guides)
author: Helen Loveday
description: Helen Loveday has a BA in Chinese and a PhD in Chinese archeology from Oxford University. Following time spent in Central Asia, she became attracted by Iran and began studying Farsi, the national language. She is interested in the Islamic architecture of ancient Persia and Sino-Iranian cultural exchanges. She currently lives in Geneva, Switzerland, where she is a curator of the Baur Collection museum.
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  Night in Tehran
  
  Copyright © Philip Kaplan, 2020
  
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  First Melville House Printing: November 2020
  
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  Contents
  
  [ _Cover_](kindle:embed:0002?mime=image/jpg)
  
   _Title Page_
  
   _Copyright_
  
   _Dedication_
  
  1: Paris
  
  2: Passage to Iran
  
  3: Two Tehrans
  
  4: Priest & Professor
  
  5: Hanif
  
  6: New Year’s Eve
  
  7: Moharram
  
  8: Doing the 40-40
  
  9: The Great Game
  
  10: Mossad’s Man
  
  11: Palmer & The Shah
  
  12: A Visit
  
  13: Reaching the Radicals
  
  14: Race Against Time
  
  15: Beirut
  
  16: The Sheikh
  
  17: Ramadan
  
  18: 