Introduction / Lila Azam Zanganeh The stuff that dreams are made of / Azar Nafisi I grew up thinking I was white / Gelareh Asayesh How can one be Persian? / Marjane Satrapi From here to mullahcracy / Reza Aslan Death of a mannequin / Mehrangiz Kar The last chapter in the Book of Exodus / Roya Hakakian Women without men / Shirin Neshat Sex in the time of mullahs / Azadeh Moaveni Misreading Kundera in Tehran / Naghmeh Zarbafian Receding worlds / Daryush Shayegan A taste of my cinema / Abbas Kiarostami An alley greener than the dream of God / Babak Ebrahimian Don't cry for me, America / Negar Azimi Tehran underground / Salar Abdoh Why acting set me free / Shohreh Aghdashloo