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Shirin Ebadi
Born
in Hamadan, Iran
June 21, 1947
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Britain must do more to bring Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe back from Iran
L ast week in Iran, while most global attention focused on Donald Trump���s threat to shred the nuclear deal, new charges were brought against the British-Iranian charity worker, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe . Arrested last year while on holiday with her one-year-old, Nazanin faces 16 additional years behind bars. She is currently...
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Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope
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2006
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49 editions
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Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran
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2016
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27 editions
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The Golden Cage: Three Brothers, Three Choices, One Destiny
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2008
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21 editions
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An Appeal by Shirin Ebadi to the world: That's not what the Prophet meant
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2016
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9 editions
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Refugee Rights in Iran
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2008
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2 editions
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Szabadnak születtem - Egy iráni nő harca az igazságért
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Iranienne et libre
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MEMORIAS DE SHIRIN EBADI
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Hopes: Un autre monde est possible
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Altin Kafes
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“When the gravity of death first touched me, I'd found preoccupation with the minutiae of daily life meaningless. If we ultimately die, and turn to dust in the ground, should it ever truly upset us if the floor hasn't been swept quite recently enough.”
― Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope
― Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope
“It is not important whether what he is chanting is true or not, whether you believe in it or not. Your decision to chant along with him is no measure of your commitment to justice or freedom or whatever lofty principle is at hand. Sometimes, radical slogans are a trap. They are shouted by infiltrators so that a group of students protesting a press crackdown can be depicted as seeking to overthrow the regime. Sometimes they are not traps at all but the frustrated stand of a brave person. But how are you to know? Your objective is to avoid being a pawn, to avoid getting dragged into trouble because you are curious, or believe you are seeing history being made." They”
― Iran Awakening: A memoir of revolution and hope
― Iran Awakening: A memoir of revolution and hope
“was a female Palestinian suicide bomber clutching a rifle in one hand and her little son in the other. This, it seemed, was the state’s only vision of gender equality. Ahmadinejad instituted separate elevators for men and women in government buildings, and he fired swaths of municipal workers who were not religious or devoted enough to his ideology. Tehran”
― Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran
― Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran
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