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

by Esfandiari, Haleh

• ISBN13: 9780061583285
• ISBN10: 0061583286
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-05
• Publisher: Harpercollins

Summary

The story of Iranian-American scholar Esfandiari's imprisonment in Iran, "My Prison, My Home" chronicles her harrowing weeks in prison and offers an eye-opening account of how international relations can drastically transform individual lives.

Author Biography

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. She lives in Maryland with her husband, Shaul Bakhash, a professor at George Mason University.

Table of Contents

The "Robbery"	p. 1
An Iranian Childhood	p. 17
A Career Interrupted	p. 34
The Interrogation	p. 52
"Things Will Get Worse"	p. 71
The Lull	p. 89
The Arrest	p. 122
Evin Prison	p. 155
The Release	p. 185
Freedom	p. 208
Epilogue	p. 219
Acknowledgments	p. 227
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