Staff Recommendation: My Prison, My Home

Esfandiari, the Iranian-American founding Director of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Middle East Program, travels every Christmas to Iran to visit her mother. In her trip in 2006, she was subjected to a series of interrogations and 105 days of solitary confinement by the Iranian Intelligence Ministry. Here, she also discusses the political scene in pre- and post-1979 revolution in Iran.

My Prison, My Home by Haleh Esfandiari

Reviewed by: Arezoo