In the land of the Ayatollahs Tupac Shakur is king: reflections from Iran and the Arab world

Prologue: From the Marabar to the Tora Bora Caves

Genesis and Exodus: the Islamic revolution and Persian diaspora (Birmingham-Frankfurt-Tehran)

Big brother on Sugar Street (Tehran)

In the Land of the Ayatollahs Tupac Shakur is King (Tehran)

Careless whispers in the state of grace (Tehran-Qom-Esfahan)

Coca-colonisation (Esfahan)

Purple rain where the streets have no name (Esfahan)

Martyrs blood stains the stairway to heaven (Esfahan-Shiraz)

Alladin Sane lost in the land of the philosopher kings (Shiraz)

Smooth criminals on the road to Damascus (Shiraz-Tehran-Damascus)

Madame tells a tale of two cities (Damascus)

The continuing adventures of man's spare rib (Damascus)

The Gospel of Descartes (Damascus)

The shame of midnight's children (Damascus-Beirut)

Finding Hermes footprints: a critique of pure dogma? (Beirut)

Social(ist) unrest on animal farm (Beirut)

Caught between the pit and the pendulum: the new religious inquisition (Beirut-Damascus-Anman)

Float like a butterfly stung by a bee (Amman)

Ballad of a thin man's son (Amman)

Two tribes: how does a rose grow from concrete? (al-Quds)

Sympathy for the devil: clash of the un-civilisations (Jerusalem)

Somewhere over the rainbow: the end of history? (The promised land)

Epilogue: Imagine (beyond good and evil)

Part 1: The ghosts of Detroit Red

Part 2: The Fitna (tribulation) of Yusuf K: a modern-day fable.