My Prison, My Home - One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran

Zusatztext "[Esfandiari] weaves her personal experience with the political and historical background of Iran.... Best are the more personal descriptions: the white rose from a guard... the strength of her mother...how Esfandiari...attempt[s] to maintain some sense of dignity." Informationen zum Autor Haleh Esfandiari is a distinguished Iranian American public intellectual. The foundingdirector of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Middle East Program, she is the formerdeputy secretary general of the Women’s Organization of Iran and has taught at PrincetonUniversity. She has worked in Iran as a journalist and is the author of Reconstructed Lives: Women and Iran’s Islamic Revolution . She lives in Maryland with her husband, Shaul Bakhash, a professor at George Mason University. Klappentext On December 31, 2006, sixty-seven-year-old scholar and grandmother Haleh Esfandiari was on her way home to the United States from Iran when she became the victim of a far-fetched conspiracy theory. On the suspicion that she was part of an American plot to bring “regime change” to Iran, the Intelligence Ministry detained, interrogated, and eventuallyarrested her. For the next 105 days, she lived in solitary confinement in the notorious Evin Prison. Weaving together memories of her childhood in Iran, her story of capture and release, and her extensive knowledge of her homeland, My Prison, My Home is at once a mesmerizing story of survival and a clear-eyed portrait of Iran today and how it came to be. Zusammenfassung 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 ordeal is 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 ...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Haleh Esfandiari
• Verlag: Ecco Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 05.10.2010
• EAN: 9780061583285
• ISBN: 978-0-06-158328-5
• Seiten: 256
• Abmessung: 135 mm x 203 mm x 15 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte; Biography: general, Memoirs, Middle East, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, History of Religion, Judaism, United States of America, USA, Middle Eastern history, Literary essays, Anthologies: general, History of the Americas, Personal religious testimony and popular inspirational works, Biography: religious and spiritual, Gender studies: women and girls, Biography: historical, political and military, HISTORY: WORLD, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS: Nonfiction / Biography & Memoir *, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Historical, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Religious, HISTORY: Middle East / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, HISTORY: Middle East / Iran