The Ministry of Guidance Invites You to Not Stay

Amid strained U.S.–Iran relations, Iranian-American writer Hooman Majd dared to bring his young family to Tehran for a year. In The Ministry of Guidance Invites You to Not Stay , he interweaves their domestic adventures with Iran’s political turbulence. “Majd is a keen and intelligent observer of political life in Iran, and his memoir resonates with nostalgia for the country of his birth.”— The New York Times Book Review In February 2011, Hooman Majd disembarked at the Tehran airport, a place he