Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran
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On the morning of January 31, 2009, Roxana Saberi, an Iranian-American journalist effective in Iran, was forced from her home by four men and secretly under arrest in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison. The intelligence agents who captured her accused her of espionage—a charge she denied. For several days, Saberi was held in solitary confinement, ruthlessly interrogated, and cut off from the outside world. For weeks, neither her family tree nor her friends knew her position.
After a sham examination that made headlines around the world, the thirty-one-year-ancient reporter was sentenced to eight years in prison. But following international pressure by family tree, friends, colleagues, various governments, and total strangers, she was unrestricted on appeal on May 11, 2009. Now Saberi breaks her silence to share the full account of her suffering, describing in plain detail the methods that Iranian hard-liners are using to try to frighten and control many of the country’s people.
In this gripping and inspirational right tale, Saberi writes movingly of her imprisonment, her examination, her eventual relief, and the faith that helped her through it all. Her recollections are interwoven with insights into Iranian society, the Islamic regime, and U.S.-Iran relations, as well as tales of her fellow prisoners—many of whom were jailed for their pursuit of human rights, including freedom of speech, association, and religion. Saberi gains might and wisdom from her cellmates who support her throughout a grueling hunger strike and remind her of the humanity that remains, even when they are denied the most basic rights.
Between Two Worlds is also a deeply revealing account of this tumultuous country and the ongoing struggle for freedom that is being fought inside Evin Prison and on the streets of Iran. From her heartfelt perspective, Saberi offers a rich, dramatic, and illuminating portrait of Iran as it undergoes a arresting, historic transformation.
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Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran by Roxana Saberi chronicles the leader’s experience as a prisoner in Ward 209 of the notorious Evin prison. Taken from her apartment in Tehran by four intelligence officers, Saberi soon establish herself being ushered through a world of blindfolds, steel bars and locked doors.
Between Two Worlds starts with Saberi at Christmas time and then quickly quick forwards to her arrest on January 31, 2009. The first chapter was unnecessary to the tale, as it didn’t do much for making the setting and the writing is far weaker here than anywhere else in the book. Saberi falls fleeting with a strong start, unless she proposed to dumb down for demographic.
As both her tale and the memoir progress, so does the flow of the tale. She takes us through her first moments of Evin prison, her thoughts while in solitary confinement and the experiences she had with one particular interrogator she nicknamed Javon. As Saberi becomes increasingly isolated from the world outside of Evin, she takes us through her silent desperation where she was left alone only with her thoughts. She conveys the fears that she felt, as well as the questions of ethics in building a fake confession and agreeing to spy for Iran’s security force.
This is where we meet the ‘Angels of Evin’ – a variety of cellmates Saberi had while in detention. Brief interactions between Saberi and her cellmates are recounted. It is through these interactions that Saberi gains her voice and recants her fake confession. This is also where the tale changes and soon Saberi, timid and obedient, finds herself standing up to her interrogators and judicial officials whom she felt were not listening to her.
One of the best written scenes comes Saberi is agreed a secret meeting with her boyfriend, Bahman before long before her relief.
While Saberi’s tale is intriguing, particularly because of the international attention it received, I question if individuals are able to separate the actual memoir from the Roxana Saberi tale as seen on various media outlets. Perhaps this is excellent for sales, but I judge it may prove to be detrimental to the integrity of the full-part, written work. I establish myself having more questions after finishing the book than answers, particularly in regards to what media has reported were issues in this case. Saberi doesn’t take up the issue of press credentials in detail, and only mentions it briefly. This was distracting to me. I was also distracted in any interaction she wrote about with her boyfriend, Bahman Ghobadi, and her family tree because statements that Saberi’s father made in the press implyied questionable motives held by Ghobadi. Persons statements were made around this time last year, so they are still fresh in my mind. While reading the book, I couldn’t help but remember the headline ‘Roxana Saberi: Out of Iranian Prison, Into a Soap Opera’ or
I reflect Saberi’s tale would have been much better served had more time elapsed from her relief to the relief of the book. I reflect that Saberi would have written a much stronger body of work had more time elapsed from the time she started writing it to the time it was published. Publishing a book written in such alacrity is rare and I cannot help but feeling suspicious because of this. I do look forwards to reading Ms. Saberi’s book on the Iran and wish that book would have been published first because I am sure the writing is much different.
Roxana Saberi’s tale is very appealing, lacking a doubt. She was very courageous. I am pleased that she had a pleased ending and has been able to work towards moving onto the next chapter of her life. The book about the Roxana Saberi’s tale, but, notsomuch.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Roxana’s tale of her captivity in the Evin Prison in Iran is a refreshing and courageous tale of a young woman caught in the malicious world of power, intrigue, greed and prejudice of her variable captors. The reader is left spellbound by the sheer senselessness of the captors, their conviction from the outset of the innocence of their young prisoner, and their self occupation in a pretend world of outrageous conspiracies. This is a special place: Justice is checked at door, Mercy is a foreign taboo and God is nowhere to be establish. What contrast to the invocation of the so-called believers: In the Name of God, the Just, the Merciful!
The tale is a self-paced and real journey with a young innocent woman, who walks you through the fragile moments of her suffering, her breakdown at the hands of injustice, her spring back and regained might and her determination to stand firm in the face of the utter injustice facing her and her fellow prisoners. The Angels of Evin — the many cellmates that she came to know, who gave her the might and courage to fight along — are the unsung heroins of a variable regime whose incredible tale Roxana has begun to tell and posterity will record in much greater detail.
Read this book to get a real, first-hand appreciation of what is going on behind the walls of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
As Ms. Saberi writes this account of her experiences in Evin prison, she reveals much about herself. An inquiring mind, a passionate pursuit of knowledge, and her diversity of cultural experiences are the tri-focal lens through which she sees and reports. It is a careful logical analysis that stands in stark contrast to our own regularly “knee-jerk” result to peoples and cultures different from our own experiences.
Between Two Worlds is well-written and simple to read. Perhaps it could be required reading for persons involved in foreign policy and especially interrogation policy development. I look forwards to the publication of Ms. Saberi’s book on the Iranian culture.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Roxana Saberi’s tale of her life and incarceration in Iran is a riveting read. I read it in two sessions only because I had ongoing it late in the day and had to get some sleep. Roxana gives a detailed account of her life in Iran just prior to her arrest and the following time she spent in Evian prison. It will open your eyes to a whole new world in which we live and yet know very small about. A must read for anyone interested in recent events in Iran.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This really is a wonderful book. The style was a bit unpolished at first (as the scene had to be rapidly set) but it still flowed well and really took off in the latter two-thirds. This is not an anti-Iran book. On the contrary, it is very clear that the leader has fallen in like with Iran and Iranian culture. The evolving ultra-conservative authoritarian regime tore her from her world into the psycho-torture of Evin Prison and the warped paranoia of the revolutionary court. This book is a memoir of her time there peppered with background from experiences from her previous 6 years.
It is a cultural, social, spiritual, and political drama and should be required reading for any political science class studying oppression.
On a personal note, I am so proud of this leader. She exhibits a humanity and courage that we would all strive toward. I trust that this work will have positive repercussions that ripple for years and decades and I marvel if the events, as tragic as they were, might not have set the leader on a fantastic path. I pray that there are no stable scars.
For persons who remember Zahra Kazemi, her death is not in vain. It set the stage for awareness that may have protected the leader and perhaps aided her relief to be able to write this book.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5