Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran

✍ Scribed by Ebadi, Shirin

• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 304
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Shirin Ebadi has inspired millions around the globe through her work as a human rights lawyer defending women and children against a brutal regime in Iran. Now Ebadi tells her story of courage and defiance in the face of a government out to destroy her, her family, and her mission: to bring justice to the people and the country she loves.

For years the Islamic Republic tried to intimidate Ebadi, but after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rose to power in 2005, the censorship and persecution intensified. The government wiretapped Ebadi’s phones, bugged her law firm, sent spies to follow her, harassed her colleagues, detained her daughter, and arrested her sister on trumped-up charges. It shut down her lectures, fired up mobs to attack her home, seized her offices, and nailed a death threat to her front door. Despite finding herself living under circumstances reminiscent of a spy novel, nothing could keep Ebadi from speaking out and standing up for human dignity.

But it was not until she received a phone call from her distraught husband—and he made a shocking confession that would all but destroy her family—that she realized what the intelligence apparatus was capable of to silence its critics. The Iranian government would end up taking everything from Shirin Ebadi—her marriage, friends, and colleagues, her home, her legal career, even her Nobel Prize—but the one thing it could never steal was her spirit to fight for justice and a better future. This is the story of a woman who would never give up, no matter the risks.

✦ Table of Contents

Prologue: Death Threat --
Intimidation --
A Wedding and Many Funerals --
The Man Who Wanted to Buy a Centrifuge --
A Midnight Visit --
In the Shadow of Ahmadinejad --
The Women Who Dared Rise Up --
Spies on the Doorstep --
A Fatwa to Defend --
Besieged --
A Mother's Test --
The Farewell --
The Stolen Election --
Alone in the World --
Betrayal --
Life Without a Home --
The Forged Passport --
Dispossession --
The Spring That Led to Winter --
Bloodbath as Lesson --
The Suspicious Neighbor.

✦ Subjects

Nonfiction;Autobiography;Memoir;Cultural;Iran;Feminism;Politics;Biography;History;Social Movements;Social Justice;Biography Memoir;Womens