Not Without My Daughter

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'You are here for the rest of your life. Do you understand? You are not leaving Iran. You are here untilyou die.'
Betty Mahmoody and her húsban d, Dr Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody ('Moody'), came to Iran from the USA to meet Moody's family. With them was their four-year-old daughter, Mahtob. Appalled by the squalor of their living conditions, horrified by what she saw of a country where women are merely chattels and Westerners are despised, Betty soon became desperate to return to the States. But Moody, and his often vicious family, had other plans. Mother and daughter became prisoners of an alien culture, hostages of an increasingly tyrannical and violent man.
Betty began to try to arrange an escape. Evading Moody's sinister spy network, she secretly met sympathisers opposed to Khomeini's savage regime. But every scheme that was suggested to her meant leaving Mahtob behind for ever
Eventually, Betty was given the name of a man who would plan their perilous route out of Iran, a... Tovább

Fülszöveg

'You are here for the rest of your life. Do you understand? You are not leaving Iran. You are here untilyou die.'
Betty Mahmoody and her húsban d, Dr Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody ('Moody'), came to Iran from the USA to meet Moody's family. With them was their four-year-old daughter, Mahtob. Appalled by the squalor of their living conditions, horrified by what she saw of a country where women are merely chattels and Westerners are despised, Betty soon became desperate to return to the States. But Moody, and his often vicious family, had other plans. Mother and daughter became prisoners of an alien culture, hostages of an increasingly tyrannical and violent man.
Betty began to try to arrange an escape. Evading Moody's sinister spy network, she secretly met sympathisers opposed to Khomeini's savage regime. But every scheme that was suggested to her meant leaving Mahtob behind for ever
Eventually, Betty was given the name of a man who would plan their perilous route out of Iran, a journey that few women or children had ever made. Their nightmare attempt to return home began in a bewildering snowstorm
'The horrific situation in which Betty Mahmoody found herself would give any loving mother nightmares. Hers is an amazing story of a woman's courage and totál devotion to her chíld that will have you rooting for them along every inch of their treacherous journey'
susan oudot, WOMAN'SOWN
"Compelling drama fascinating, if disturbing a moving story of one person's fortitude, courage and faith'
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