Not Without My Daughter

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its like one of those old 1920 american movies were the blonde, white christian/western women gets kidnapped by some exotic other. And then every time he would reappear in my life, I would have to work through those emotions and, you know, forgive him all over again. In 1986, American Betty Mahmoody agreed to travel to Iran with her Iranian-born husband, Moody, and their four-year, old daughter. I do think Betty did a good job of explaining how the Moody changed from when they started dating to when they were in Iran. Derived from a Kirkus review: Mahmoody delivers a riveting account of her now-famous ordeal in Iran, where she and her young daughter were held hostage for a year and a half by her Shiite Muslim husband.

Of course you cannot tar a country and its people with the one brush but I am sure this caused quite a stir at the time. If you have picked this book up in hopes that it will give you insight about Iran, put it right back down. It was a bit of a slug to get through at the beginning before you got into her plans and attempts to escape. It shows what happened to Betty and her daughter after they escaped to America, while also explaining the heartbreaking phenomenon of international child abduction.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. Was she being disingenuous regarding the circumstances surrounding her departure from the United States and about the length of her stay in Iran? What I have said in another review about Mahtob's book is that she focuses very little on the actual stay and journey out of Tehran after being held captive by her father and it read more like a documented therapeutic account that I'm sure she remains traumatized to this day, even though her father died years ago.

I was visiting family near Alpena, MI in 2013 and was told that the ‘Not Without My Daughter’ house was down the street.Mahmoody became trapped in a culture hostile to Americans, a family hostile to her, and an abusive husband. The book details her 500 mi (800 km) escape to Turkey through the snowy Iranian mountains, and the help she received from many Iranians. but to americans, the picture of a women in a headscarve is just not "frightening" enough to sell to its stupid sheep audience, so they use the veil cause it looks exotic and foriegn.

How many times can you use rhetorical questions as a tool for "suspense" before we want to rip the question mark off your keyboard? Martin's Press in 1991, complete with cover art depicting Sally Field as Betty and Sheila Rosenthal as Mahtob dressed in nightgowns while they pray together; this edition contained several rare black-and-white interior photographic screenshots from the film, including one of the actors smiling together, in contrast to the stern fundamentalist roles they played. A hair-raising escape brought her and Mahtob back to the US, where they now live under assumed names, fearful of Moody.Not Without My Daughter' Subject Grows Up, Tells Her Own Story "Not Without My Daughter" told the story of an American mother and daughter fleeing Iran. Is there anything intolerant and/or mean-spirited in the vivid descriptions of filth (bugs in the food, the airport bathroom, the pervasive aroma of Teheran) that could have been cut out of the manuscript? In August 1984, Michigan housewife Betty Mahmoody accompanied her husband to his native Iran for a two-week vacation. I am really looking forward to the discussion on this one with my friend and while I enjoyed the read I did find this one was a little long but this might be more the fact that it was a re-read.