Map    8
Foreword by Arli Klassen     9
Author’s Preface    13

  1  Getting oriented     23
  2  Over the Mediterranean     27
  3  The reception     33
  4  A complicated country     37
  5  Safe passage     43
  6  Heading for the hills     47
  7  The little NGO that could     51
  8  Human rights and wrongs     57
  9  Head coverings     65
10  Welcoming the stranger?     69
11  Under the surface     73
12  An American in Iran     81
13  What we don’t know     87
14  State dinner     93
15  Father Abraham     99
16  Home again     105

Afterword     108
Appendix I: Eight Points About Iran’s Nuclear Program, by David Cortright     108
Appendix II: Jesus and the Shi’a Savior: Waiting for the Mahdi, by Tom Finger     110
Appendix III: Iran timeline     117
Further resources     122
Acknowledgements     125