Enghelab Square lies at the heart of Tehran’s urban and revolutionary landscape, just metres away from the gates of Tehran University. The site of some of the most pitched battles of the 1979 revolution, the square today bustles as an open-air market of goods. There, among the booksellers and fruit vendors, visitors can buy bootleg DVDs, banned books, drugs and alcohol and, if need be, an entire masters thesis – written from scratch and prepared for oral defence, in less than a month, writes Shervin Malekzadeh for The Washington Post.
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