No Sin Mi Hija - Softcover

Mahmoody, Betty

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8432215082 ISBN 13: 9788432215087

Publisher: Planeta Pub Corp, 1999

Synopsis

About the author and the book :: Betty Mahmoody (b. June 9, 1945 ) is an American writer and confereciante known for his book , Not Without My Daughter , which was later made an eponymous film . He is the president and co-founder of One World : For Children, an organization that promotes understanding between cultures and strives to provide security and protection for children of bi- cultural marriages ... His book , Not Without My Daughter , is a story their experiences between 1984 and 1986 , when he traveled to Iran with her husband and daughter in what promised to be a short visit and then stood there against their will. According to the book , she and her husband, Bozorg Mahmoody , and her daughter , Mahtob , traveled to Iran in August 1984. Her husband said it would be a two-week visit to his family in Tehran. Once the two weeks passed , the husband refused to allow his wife and daughter were . Mahmoody caught in a hostile culture to Americans, hostile to her family, and an abusive husband . According to the book, the husband was separated from her daughter for weeks. He was also beaten and threatened to kill her if she tried to escape. She finally managed to flee with his daughter. The book recounts his escape from 500 miles to Turkey and the help he received from many Iranians ... Betty Mahmoody also collected stories from other parents whose foreign spouses them away from their children in the book For the love of a child ... Alexis Kouros collaborated with ex- husband to create a documentary called Without My Daughter, to counter the claims of the book of Betty . On August 23, 2009 Bozorg Mahmoody died in Tehran , Iran, at age 70 . The state news agency quoted his nephew, Majid Ghodsi as source who had died in a hospital for kidney problems and other complications ..

About this edition

• Publisher: Planeta Pub Corp
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 8432215082
• ISBN 13: 9788432215087
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1