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The Slow Road to Tehran: A Revelatory Bike Ride through Europe and the Middle East,
Rebecca Lowe
Cycling from London to Tehran, covering 11,000 kilometres and taking in 20 countries along the way, has plenty of ups (cathartic moments whizzing across Jordanian plains or twisting through Albania’s aptly-named Accursed Mountains) as well as downs:
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Her idea is to capture everyday life, reporting on the “silent 99.9 per cent” who rarely make news bulletins, attempting to understand the connections between the West and this troubled region as she takes its temperature rolling on by.
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In Istanbul, a dreadful city for cyclists with its chaotic dual-carriages and spaghetti-like streets (“almost entirely bike-proof”), locals open up about the tough policies of controversial President Recep Erdogan: “He’s a classic dictator. He steals our freedoms, then distracts everyone with big shiny things.
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https://thecritic.co.uk/revolutions-and-revelations
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From 2010-15, Rebecca was chief reporter at the International Bar Association, where she specialised in long-form features, filmed interviews and mini-documentaries on rule of law and human rights issues. Most recently, she wrote and directed a documentary on military impunity for human rights abuses in Myanmar.
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She now specialises in the Middle East, with a focus on human rights. In 2015-16, she embarked on an ill-advised 11,000km, 20-country solo cycle ride from London to Tehran, via Europe, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Sudan, Oman, the UAE and Iran. Her aim was to challenge people’s preconceptions by showing that a woman could cycle through the Middle East safely. At a time of increasing prejudice and division, her hope was to humanise the region by moving away from the usual stories about terrorists and conflict to those about everyday people. To gauge her success, visit her cycling website here.
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Three continents. Twenty countries. Eleven thousand kilometres.
One 30-something who deeply regrets not doing any training.
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http://thebicyclediaries.co.uk
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