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

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 ordealis 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 Homesheds 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

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 256 pages

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