The Other Side of Silence: A Memoir of Exile, Iran, and the Global Women's Movement

by Mahnaz Afkhami

Book Overview

When Mahnaz Afkhami picked up the phone in a New York hotel room early one morning in November 1978, she learned she could never go home again: she had been declared an apostate and enemy of the Iranian Revolution and was now on its death list. Afkhami, Iran's first minister for women's affairs, began to rebuild her life in the United States, becoming an architect of the women's movement in the Global South. Along the way, she encountered familial,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469669994
• ISBN13: 9781469669991
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.0"