Not Without My Daughter
Title | Not Without My Daughter PDF eBook |
Author | Betty Mahmoody |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 530 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Americans |
ISBN | 0552152161 |
The true story of Betty Mahmoody's escape from Iran with her daughter after her Iranian husband attempted to turn a two-week vacation into a permanent relocation and a life of subservience for Betty and her daughter.
Not Without My Daughter
Title | Not Without My Daughter PDF eBook |
Author | Betty Mahmoody |
Publisher | Saint Martin's Paperbacks |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Iran |
ISBN | 9780312911935 |
The true story of Betty Mahmoody's desperate struggle to survive and to escape with her daughter from the alien and frightening culture of Iran.
My Name Is Mahtob
Title | My Name Is Mahtob PDF eBook |
Author | Mahtob Mahmoody |
Publisher | HarperChristian + ORM |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2015-12-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0718022114 |
The daughter at the center of the international bestseller Not Without My Daughter completes her story: escaping from Iran, growing up in fear, battling deadly disease, and learning to forgive. Two decades ago, millions of readers worldwide thrilled to the story told in the international bestseller Not Without My Daughter—subsequently made into a film starring Sally Field—that told of an American mother and her six-year-old child’s daring escape from an abusive and tyrannical Iranian husband and father. Now the daughter returns to tell the whole story, not only of that imprisonment and escape but of life after fleeing Tehran: living in fear of re-abduction, enduring recurring nightmares and panic attacks, attending school under a false name, battling life-threatening illness—all under the menacing shadow of her father. This is the story of an extraordinary young woman’s triumph over life-crushing trauma to build a life of peace and forgiveness. Taking readers from Michigan to Iran and from Ankara, Turkey, to Paris, France, My Name Is Mahtob depicts the profound resilience of a wounded soul healed by faith in God’s goodness and in his care and love. And Mahmoody reveals the secret of how she liberated herself from a life of fear, learning to forgive the father who had shattered her life and discovering joy and peace that comes from doing so.
Lost Without My Daughter
Title | Lost Without My Daughter PDF eBook |
Author | Sayed Mahmoody |
Publisher | Thistle Publishing |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2013-12-02 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781909869790 |
In 1987, American housewife Betty Mahmoody published Not Without My Daughter, which became a sensation. In the book, Betty claimed that she and Mahtob, her five-year-old daughter, had been kidnapped from the USA in 1984 and imprisoned in Tehran by her Iranian husband, Dr Sayed Mahmoody - aka 'Moody' - a man she vilified as a violent, sadistic monster. Betty's story culminated with a dramatic escape, as she takes her daughter from Iran over the Zagros Mountains and into Turkey. The book sold 12 million copies and inspired the 1991 Hollywood film of the same name, starring Oscar-winner Sally Field. For twenty years Betty's husband has kept silent. Now, in Lost Without My Daughter, Sayed Mahmoody finally reveals the astonishing truth. As well as being a moving, frank story of a once happy family's collapse, and a father's subsequent search for meaning in his life, Lost Without My Daughter is also a cultural and political history of Iran, from the revolution to the present day. Perhaps more than anything, it is an exercise in truth, the last-ditch attempt of a father desperate to reach his daughter, to let her know that he is not the monster he has been portrayed to be.
Abusing Religion
Title | Abusing Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Megan Goodwin |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2020-07-17 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1978807805 |
Sex abuse happens in all communities, but American minority religions often face disproportionate allegations of sexual abuse. Why, in a country that consistently fails to acknowledge—much less address—the sexual abuse of women and children, do American religious outsiders so often face allegations of sexual misconduct? Why does the American public presume to know “what’s really going on” in minority religious communities? Why are sex abuse allegations such an effective way to discredit people on America’s religious margins? What makes Americans so willing, so eager to identify religion as the cause of sex abuse? Abusing Religion argues that sex abuse in minority religious communities is an American problem, not (merely) a religious one.
For the Love of a Child
Title | For the Love of a Child PDF eBook |
Author | Betty Mahmoody |
Publisher | |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Custody of children |
ISBN | 9780330335362 |
Not Without My Sister
Title | Not Without My Sister PDF eBook |
Author | Celeste Jones |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0007248083 |
The true story of three girls violated and betrayed.