sophiemr's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
brazenbookbabe's review against another edition
dark
4.0
So many parallels to what is happening in the US today.
msgtdameron's review against another edition
dark
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
This is an autobiography that tells many of the horrors of the Iranian regime. But, Ms. Abdei is a lawyer who instead of leaving Iran after the revolution she stayed. She has fought for women's and children's rights against a regime that wants her dead. She knows that as she read her name on a hit list while legally researching another case for a client. She has won a Nobel Peace Prize. She shows that if the U.S. conservative politicians would get over Regan being outed by the Revolutionary Guard, and actually negotiate in good faith: maybe the U.S. and Iran could come to a peace deal that would benefit both nations. I hope that even today 20 years after the work was published we can. Also Thank you Ms. Abdei for getting the U.S. Treasury to change their rules for your work. By doing so you lifted the same rules for many other authors who publish works that show Iran in a light other than religious fanaticism and evil folk. Another thing that U.S. conservatives don't want Americans to see. Maybe we the people should demand that our government negotiate with Tehran?
imadmad's review against another edition
5.0
و هنا تنتهي الرحلة مع شرين عبادي ، و يالها من رحلة
احداث قصتنا تبدا من صعود الشاه للحكم الى سقوطه بعد احداث ثورة 1978 و تاسس الجمهورية الاسلامية ثم تختم بستلام شرين لجائزة النوبل للسلام.
في هذا الكتاب ارتنا شرين معاناة المراة الايرانية من وجهة نظرها هي التي كانت تشغل منصب قاضية قبل الثورة و التي كانت من اشد مناصري الحراك الثوري لتصبح بعد ذلك وضفة مكتبية عادية و تمنع من ممارسة القضاة، تحكي هنا شرين كل الاحداث الكبيرة التي مرت بها ايران و كانت شرين جزء منها بكونها من اشهر المحاميات التي تستلم قضايا اغلبها لمعتقلين سياسين او عائلة ضحايا النظام....
كما ان الذي جعل تتبع قصة شرين ممتع هو انها لم تكن ترى المشكل في الدين نفسه بل في التفسيير المتطرف الذي يتبعه اصحاب السلطة و الذي يقوم باقصاء النساء مماجعلها محبوبة من فئة اكبر من الناس لكن هذا ايضا اكسبها معارضين اكثر سوء من المتشددين او العلمانيين الذين يرون المشكل بالاسلام بحد ذاته
احداث قصتنا تبدا من صعود الشاه للحكم الى سقوطه بعد احداث ثورة 1978 و تاسس الجمهورية الاسلامية ثم تختم بستلام شرين لجائزة النوبل للسلام.
في هذا الكتاب ارتنا شرين معاناة المراة الايرانية من وجهة نظرها هي التي كانت تشغل منصب قاضية قبل الثورة و التي كانت من اشد مناصري الحراك الثوري لتصبح بعد ذلك وضفة مكتبية عادية و تمنع من ممارسة القضاة، تحكي هنا شرين كل الاحداث الكبيرة التي مرت بها ايران و كانت شرين جزء منها بكونها من اشهر المحاميات التي تستلم قضايا اغلبها لمعتقلين سياسين او عائلة ضحايا النظام....
كما ان الذي جعل تتبع قصة شرين ممتع هو انها لم تكن ترى المشكل في الدين نفسه بل في التفسيير المتطرف الذي يتبعه اصحاب السلطة و الذي يقوم باقصاء النساء مماجعلها محبوبة من فئة اكبر من الناس لكن هذا ايضا اكسبها معارضين اكثر سوء من المتشددين او العلمانيين الذين يرون المشكل بالاسلام بحد ذاته
persnickety9's review against another edition
5.0
This book is probably one of the best I've ever read; it was assigned reading for my college history class, and I was admittedly a bit hesitant since it seemed to be about a heavy topic. While it was, it was also incredibly illuminating and educational. I read it in one night; the pace of the story is great and you really empathize with the people in her life. I'd recommend this for anyone who wants to understand life and current history a little better!
david611's review against another edition
4.0
The writing of this memoir was truly one of the most important undertakings in the World Current Affairs of this time. It is very, very well written!! The book also reminded me of reading [a:Khaled Hosseini|569|Khaled Hosseini|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1359753468p2/569.jpg]'s [b:A Thousand Splendid Suns|128029|A Thousand Splendid Suns|Khaled Hosseini|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1345958969s/128029.jpg|3271379] because of some similarity of themes, although this one contains events that really happened and the characters mentioned in the book did or do exist.
Divided into twelve chapters, they are dedicated to certain times in Shirin's and Iran's history. Chapters deal with Shirin's childhood; herself getting involved with the Justice System in Iran, and then becoming a judge, during the time of the Shah; the Revolution in 1979; life and times in Iran during the Iran-Iraq War; life and times in Tehran while it was being bombed; the morality police and its effects on the citizens; her fight for the Defense of Children's, Women's and Human Rights in court; the dark days during which the intellectuals, writers, translators, poets, etc. were executed; hoping for reforms in the theocratic regime; about and during the time of Mrs. Ebadi serving some time in the jail as a political prisoner; her Nobel Prize winning return to Tehran and its reactions.
Although a small book, but still important, I feel that everyone should read it to understand what the people of Iran have been going through in the last sixty-five years. They have been under an un-wanted rule of the Shah before; and now forcibly under a theocratic rule of the Islamic Republic by the clerics, been repressed, restricted, forbidden, forced, and laid to a lot of injustice in the land.
Much recommended !!
Divided into twelve chapters, they are dedicated to certain times in Shirin's and Iran's history. Chapters deal with Shirin's childhood; herself getting involved with the Justice System in Iran, and then becoming a judge, during the time of the Shah; the Revolution in 1979; life and times in Iran during the Iran-Iraq War; life and times in Tehran while it was being bombed; the morality police and its effects on the citizens; her fight for the Defense of Children's, Women's and Human Rights in court; the dark days during which the intellectuals, writers, translators, poets, etc. were executed; hoping for reforms in the theocratic regime; about and during the time of Mrs. Ebadi serving some time in the jail as a political prisoner; her Nobel Prize winning return to Tehran and its reactions.
Although a small book, but still important, I feel that everyone should read it to understand what the people of Iran have been going through in the last sixty-five years. They have been under an un-wanted rule of the Shah before; and now forcibly under a theocratic rule of the Islamic Republic by the clerics, been repressed, restricted, forbidden, forced, and laid to a lot of injustice in the land.
Much recommended !!