About this title: The moving, inspiring memoir of Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize and advocate for the oppressed, offers a vivid picture of the struggles of one woman against the system.
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Random House Inc
Date Published: 2007-04-24
ISBN-13:9780812975284ISBN:0812975286
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780812975284ISBN:0812975286
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Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE INC
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780812975284ISBN:0812975286
Description: New. Human rights activist and winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize, Ebadi courageously recounts her life in Iran in this memoir, publishable here only after she brought the U.S. government to court to challenge the Treasury Department's sanctions policy. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780812975284ISBN:0812975286
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"Iran Awakening was quite a book. Reads easy, she's a good storyteller. Interesting from different angles as well. Politicly informative. I didn't appreciate the significance of Obama's admission of the US role in the 1953 coup. And their mistrust of the US is pretty understandable as well.
But the story also is inciteful from her personal angle, as a woman and mother. How she backed a revolution that would destroy much of her own personal/professional life is fascinating, especially when others saw what was coming. She says she was an idiot. At the same time, she has a clear bitterness towards those who left Iran. That bitterness gets tested when the choice comes for her own daughter and she leaves. She deeply loves her homeland.
Her obvious brilliance makes a mockery of those who oppress her."
"Ebadi creatively tells her life story and makes her experiences seem personal to those reading about them. She brings alive the aspects of Iran that we have only briefly heard about on nightly news or perhaps come across in a more academic magazine. She compassion for her country is strong, unbreakable, which is at times difficult to understand considering her difficult career, family life and worries over the vulnerable."
"I got this book to try and get a better understanding of the recent history that has lead to the current events in Iran. And it was perfect. It went into enough depth to give a really solid background on the history, but it's couched in a really engaging narrative that keeps it from feeling like a textbook.
Shirin Ebadi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for her work as a lawyer defending dissidents, women, and other victims of the Iranian regime. She is deeply religious and very strongly believes that Islam, properly interpreted, does not conflict with democracy and equality.
This book is a memoir of her life in Iran during events from the US-orchestrated coup-d'etat that brought the Shah to power in 1953 to the 1979 revolution and on to the present day.
In order to get the book published, she sued the US Treasury Department, causing them to revise some of their provisions regarding sanctions against Iran that prohibit American publishing houses from working with Iranian authors.
There's so much great stuff in this book. I totally recommend it."
"I agree with the critics on this one: it is a must read for any American with the slightest interest/curiosity in Middle Eastern foreign relations/politics and general human rights. I read it on Memorial Day and it made me even more grateful for the freedoms we, as a nation, seem to take for granted while other intelligent & worthy people have to literally fight for their humanity. Shirin deserved the Noble Peace Prize.. reading her memoir was enlightening & humbling."
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