Rose Carmichael is a linguist, writer and journalist. Rose grew up in the countryside in Cambridgeshire, before moving to Dubai, Tehran and then eventually, London. After graduating from the University of Cambridge, where she studied Middle Eastern Studies and Modern Languages, with a focus on Persian language and literature, she worked at an international Farsi-language television channel in London, where she used her Farsi language skills to both present and produce Arts and Culture shows.
‘Are you foreign? Why would you come to Iran? Please tell your friends back home that we are nothing like the Western media.’ These were among the phrases that Rose would hear almost daily in Tehran.Hijabs, Hitchhiking and Hangovers: Lessons from Iran is a coming-of-age travel adventure. At the...