My Prison, My HomeMy Prison, My Home
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
In this memoir, Esfandiari, an Iranian American intellectual who has taught at Princeton U., founded the Woodrow Wilson Center's Middle East Program, and worked in Iran as a journalist, tells of how after being robbed during a visit to her mother in Iran in 2006, she was arrested at the age of 67, as Iran's Intelligence Ministry thought she was part of the American conspiracy for "regime change" in Iran. They ordered a search of her mother's apartment, interrogated her for weeks, tapped her phone calls, and detained her at the Evin Prison for eight months, where she spent almost four in solitary confinement. She relates the story within the context of US-Iran relations and how the Iran of today came to be. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
On December 31, 2006, Isfandiyr's life changed. It was believed she was part of an American conspiracy for "regime change" in Iran. After weeks of interrogation, she was detained at the notorious Evin Prison, where she spent 105 days in solitary confinement.
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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 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
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- New York, N.Y. : Ecco/HarperCollins, c2009.
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