My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran
My Prison, My Home: One
Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran
Auhtor: Haleh Esfandiari ISBN: 0061583278
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My Prison, My Home is the harrowing true
story of Iranian-American scholar Haleh Esfandiari's arrest on false charges and
subsequent incarceration in Evin Prison, the most notorious penitentiary in
Ahmadinejad's Iran. Esfandiari's riveting, deeply personal, and illuminating
first-person account of her ordealis the inspiring tale of one woman's
triumph over interrogation, intimidation, and fear. Offering a shocking,
close-up view inside the paranoid mindset of the repressive Ahmadinejad regime,
My Prison, My Home sheds light on a high-stakes international
incident that sparked protests from some of the world's most influential public
figures-including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and former U.S. Secretary of
State Madeline Albright.
Book Description
At the Ministry of Intelligence in Tehran, a
man in a checkered shirt sits down in an easy chair. He removes several
documents from his pocket and hands one to Haleh Esfandiari, a
sixty-seven-year-old Iranian American grandmother he has interrogated and
detained for what seems to be an endless number of weeks. "This is your
arrest warrant and we are taking you to Evin Prison," he says.
This stunning arrest was the culmination of a
chain of events set into motion in the early-morning hours of December 31,
2006-a day that began like any other but presaged the end of Esfandiari's
regular visits to her elderly mother in Iran, and her return to the United
States.
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Haleh
Esfandiari is a distinguished Iranian-American public intellectual.
The founding director of the Woodrow Wilson Center's Middle East
Program, she is the former deputy secretary general of the Women's
Organization of Iran and has taught at Princeton University. She has
worked in Iran as a journalist and is the author of Reconstructed
Lives: Women and Iran's Islamic Revolution and My Prison, My
Home One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran. She lives in Maryland
with her husband, Shaul Bakhash, a professor at George Mason University.
