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Not Without My Daughter
 

Not Without My Daughter

by Betty Mahmoody


In August 1984, Michigan housewife Betty Mahmoody accompanied her husband to his native Iran for a two-week vacation. To her horror, she found herself and her four-year-old daughter, Mahtob, virtual prisoners of a man rededicated to his Shiite Moslem faith, in a land where women are near-slaves and Americans are despised. Their only hope for escape lay in a dangerous underground that would... (read more)

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mevarsh
  • Rated 5 stars

“A TALE OF GRIT AND DETERMINATION IN THE FACE OF EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES”

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Sara B
  • Rated 2 stars

“what the writer didn't know was that she had NOT married one of the ellite of the society. every country has dishonest, cruel, strange, abusive... people in them, and she was one of the unlucky ones to have become a member of one of these families!!! she had no right to make it seem like all iranians are like that!!!”

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  • Rated 3.5 stars
  

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  • divya j

    divya j said:

    “one of the best autobiographies i have ever read!!”

    posted Sunday, June 1 2008
  • morrighan m

    morrighan m said:

    “I've read the book. I've also read other books on the subject. While it is true that in many parts of the world in one way or another, women have been mistreated, you have to agree that this was way back in history. While this story is not at all that old and it does still happen today.

    I do not believe that the reason this man mistreated his wife was because he was unstable. He did so, because in his country this was tolerated if not condoned. His entire family did nothing to help her. She had to go underground to get away. If he had been unstable, his family would've intervened and this atrocity never would have happened.

    The atrocities against women are on the news constantly; the stoning, even deaths, whilst the family of these men condone it because it's their law. These atrocities are even committed by the women's male family members for supposedly "disgracing" the family.

    Sara i- I think covers the sun with one finger and decides the sun is that small. And to say that a woman with noble thoughts and behaviour gets treated like a queen? Well- isn't this just like saying, that Betty got what she deserved????”

    posted Monday, May 5 2008
  • Rhea C

    rhea c said:

    “It's only a book cover, people!!! It's not the first time a cover didn't exactly match or convey the subject matter, inside. ;)

    Regarding Islam and women being treaded as slaves and abused by men.... All faiths and countries/nations around the world, at one point or another, have mistreated women - in the name of religion, patriarchy or some sort of sense of superiority.

    This book tells the story of Betty, an American women, who marries an Iranian man, while he is in the US. It's not a story about ALL women in Iran.”

    posted Sunday, April 20 2008
  • Rena M

    rena m said:

    “The original picture on the book had Sally Field as Betty. This was chosen because it was about her experience they were not focused on a photo consistent with the type of garments women wore in that area. But of course there are several different types”

    posted Sunday, April 20 2008
  • Reza F

    reza f said:

    “i truly agree with what sara say :)”

    posted Sunday, April 20 2008
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