Not Without My Daughter

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One day, an unnamed individual instructed Betty to go to an address and ask for the manager Amahl, who would find a way for both Betty and Mahtob to escape. The people who helped here were the only kind people in the story, never focusing on family members who were understanding or not out-right evil. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). While watching Mahtob play in the park, Betty encountered Judy, another American woman married to an Iranian.

I think this is particularly important nowadays with a huge portion of the world trying to kill us because of *our* way of life. There is no doubt that women are treated differently in Muslim countries and with them I do empathize. I think Betty portrayed the people she knew in Iran as she remembered them but I’m not confident they were exactly as described. A shockingly successful novel with a bit of exaggeration and full of revenge against the ex-husband and his family.Betty Mahmoody planned to go to Iran with her family for 2 weeks but her daughter and her get kidnapped by her husband and his family. I read this a long time ago so that's the only example I can remember off hand but I think it's important that we evaluate each piece of a society on its own merits and not just vilify the entire thing simply because we don't like part of it.

She also details, in the follow up, what it was like to come back to America and try to put her life back together. Her sister-in-law had no redeeming quality at all and I have to think there was one or two good things about her. I was also fascinated by the follow-up, For Love of a Child, where she tells some of the stories of people who contacted her after her story was made public.But the reader soon sees that it’s not Islam that she has a problem with, more so the way it was enforced in that oppressive regime. How she finally escapes, and the sympathetic friends she meets along the way will make your heart soar. I recommended it to our book club members to read and they all say it is a fascinating story and worth reading. While at times I did feel for the situation the author was in, it was hard to sympathize with her on other occasions because she just seemed so judgmental.

Item despatched quickly and as described, but damaged in transit due to plastic wrap packaging being inadequate protection.Many of her husband's relatives were actually shocked and scolded him for his treatment of her and their daughter, including his own mother. I read and reread Not Without My Daughter as a teen, growing more horrified and even more thankful to have been born in a nation where I had clean food and where, even as a child, I was free to go about when, where, and how I pleased. Betty Mahmoody agrees to visit Iran with her husband, Moody, and daughter, Mahtob, despite niggling thoughts to the contrary. When the movie, “Not Without My Daughter” came out back in 1991, I remember hearing that many of my fellow countrymen boycotted it. My point, and one that I still adhere to, was that this was Betty Mahmoody’s experience and she should feel free to share it.

It was compelling and I could hardly put it down, except when it got to be too painful at times and I needed an emotional break. It's a product of a veritable cottage industry of horror stories and black-and-white portrayals of Muslim societies (Persepolis, Reading Lolita in Tehran, etc.

However, nothing is black and white and just because the way women are treated is abominable doesn't mean that everything in the culture is bad and everything the people do is wrong and horrible. A movie version starring Sally Field and Alfred Molina was in theaters in January 1991 and is fantastic but pales in comparison to its thrilling, emotional source material. Not Without My Daughter is an astounding memoir that underscores just how little power women have in Iran. If you have picked this book up in hopes that it will give you insight about Iran, put it right back down.