Thursday, January 8, 2009
Grad Student Publishes Memoir of Growing Up in Iran
After the Iranian Revolution of 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini’s secret police executed and imprisoned tens of thousands of dissidents in a sweeping attempt to destroy all opposition to the regime.
UT doctoral student Nastaran Kherad was one of many who were imprisoned after the revolution.
More than 20 years after her brutal incarceration and flight from Iran, she has decided to share her story in the memoir “In the House of My Bibi: Growing Up in Revolutionary Iran” (Academy Chicago Publishers,
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