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City of Lies by Ramita Navai
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City of Lies

Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran

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Narrator Sylvia Lisle
Length 9 hours 18 minutes
Language English
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Ramita Navai gives voice to ordinary Iranians forced to live extraordinary lives: the porn star, the aging socialite, the assassin and enemy of the state who ends up working for the Republic, the dutiful housewife who files for divorce, and the old-time thug running a gambling den.



In today's Tehran, intrigues abound and survival depends on an intricate network of falsehoods: mullahs visit prostitutes, local mosques train barely pubescent boys in crowd-control tactics, and cosmetic surgeons promise to restore girls' virginity. Navai paints an intimate portrait of those discreet recesses in a city where the difference between modesty and profanity, loyalty and betrayal, honor and disgrace is often no more than the believability of a lie.

Ramita Navai is a British-Iranian foreign affairs journalist who has reported from over thirty countries, including South Sudan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Nigeria, El Salvador, and Zimbabwe. She has made twenty documentaries for Channel 4's Unreported World series, and she was awarded an Emmy Award for her undercover report from Syria for PBS's Frontline. Ramita has also worked as a journalist for the United Nations in Pakistan, Iraqi Kurdistan, and Iran, and she was the Tehran correspondent for the Times from 2003 to 2006.

Sylvia Lisle is a highly experienced British actress. She has extensive experience in the voice-over field.

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"City of Lies is an extraordinary insight into a country barely known-and often feared-by the West." ---Vogue Expand reviews
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