Betty Mahmoody
Author of Not Without My Daughter
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Works by Betty Mahmoody
1988 1 copy
Net sûnder myn famke 1 copy
Tylko z moją córką 1 copy
Sequestrada no irão 1 copy
Ne dam svojega otroka 1 copy
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Reader's Digest Auswahlbücher 176 : Diamantenfieber. Mit Leib und Seele. Nicht ohne meine Tochter. Jäger in der Nacht (1988) — Contributor — 5 copies
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- Canonical name
- Mahmoody, Betty
- Birthdate
- 1945-06-09
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Alma, Michigan, USA
- Places of residence
- Michigan USA
- Occupations
- memoirist
public speaker - Relationships
- Mahmoody, Mahtob (daughter)
- Short biography
- In 1984, Betty Mahmoody left the USA for Iran with her husband and daughter for what she was told would be a two-week visit to his family in Teheran. Once the visit was over, however, her husband refused to leave, and insisted that Betty and her daughter remain in Iran with him. She wrote about her experiences plotting her escape and fleeing to freedom in Not Without My Daughter (1991). It was adapted into a film starring Sally Field. Her second book, For the Love of a Child (1992), answered questions presented by readers from the first book, and discussed the issue of international parental child abduction. She became the co-founder and president of a foundation called One World: For Children.
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"Taraf is the Iranian conversational custom of making polite but vacant offers.”
Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody
This was a really harrowing read. Reading it, I could not get over Betty's courage and how frightened and alone she must have felt. It's a page turner and is unputdownable.
I also liked very much how Betty detailed the kindness of the people involved in helping her. The actual escape itself is nail biting. I also saw this movie but did not care for it. The book is way more powerful.
I am glad Betty and her daughter made it out safely. This was a great read and I would recommend it to anyone interested in Betty's story.… (more)
Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody
This was a really harrowing read. Reading it, I could not get over Betty's courage and how frightened and alone she must have felt. It's a page turner and is unputdownable.
I also liked very much how Betty detailed the kindness of the people involved in helping her. The actual escape itself is nail biting. I also saw this movie but did not care for it. The book is way more powerful.
I am glad Betty and her daughter made it out safely. This was a great read and I would recommend it to anyone interested in Betty's story.… (more)
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When Dr Moody takes his wife and five year old daughter Mahtob to Iran ostensibly on a two week vacation and then takes their passports and forces them to stay as he decides they will not return to America ever. This is the terrifying account of their ordeal and escape to safety.
I read this book when it was first released back in 2004 and only when re-arranging a friend’s bookshelves did we comes across this book and decided to give it a re-read, we both were shocked and affected by the story when we read this book years ago but our memory was foggy on the details and felt a re-read was due in order to discuss this one together.
It’s still as shocking today as it was all those years ago, and while the story reads like a thriller and I found myself rooting for Betty and her daughter you have to remind yourself that this nightmare was Betty’s reality at the time and certainly no thriller for her.
This is Betty’s Mahmoody’s account and its a terrifying account and ordeal for any woman and child to have gone through. On my second reading I couldn’t help wondering how damaging a book like this is/was to Iranian society. 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.
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.
An interesting and very readable book which would make an excellent bookclub choice.… (more)