Camelia: Save Yourself by Telling the Truth - A Memoir of Iran
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (869 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1583227199 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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Iranian oppression of women 1980s "Camelia Save Yourself by Telling the Truth: A Memoir of Iran" by Camelia Entekhabifard (2007). The Iranian author recounts how as a `liberal' journalist she was imprisoned in 1998 by the pro-ayatollah mullahs for her expose of Islamist-government misdeeds. To survive, she took one of her male guards as her sigheh (temporary marriage)`lover'. The author recounts how her parents bemoaned the ousting of the `liberal' Shah (compared to the `conservative mullah clerics anyway) in 1979, and how women tried to cope with th. LadyLiberty said A book you must read. I could feel her pain and bewilderment. A must read for everyone who takes liberty for granted.
While in high school and university, she became active as an emerging poet and painter. She then turned to journalism, writing for a number of papers, including the leading reformist daily, Zan Woman. Since then, she has reported on Iranian and Afghan affairs for Associated Press, Reuters, Eurasia Net, the Village Voice, and Mother Jones. CAME
Camelia Entekhabifard was six years old in 1979 when the shah of Iran was overthrown by revolutionary supporters of the Ayatollah Khomeini. Just eight years later she was imprisoned, held in solitary confinement, and charged with breaching national security and challenging the authority of the Islamic regime. By the age of sixteen, Camelia was a nationally celebrated poet, and at eighteen she was one of the youngest reformist journalists in Tehran. Camelia is both a story of growing up in post-revolutionary Tehran and a haunting reminder of the consequences of speaking the truth in a repressive society.
She'd just turned six, so she didn't understand the tumult; she knew her parents preferred the Shah to Khomeini's mullahs, but neither of them discussed leaving Iran. A poet, Entekhabifard took advantage of the Khatami regime's reformist climate to start work as a journalist. In the end, hers is a strangely disorienting account of that period. She explains, how, instead, they adjusted. (Feb.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Mother and daughters observed hijab w