#Not Without My Daughter

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Not Without My Daughter, 1991

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Not Without My Daughter (1991) Review

Based on the true story of an American woman who became trapped in Iran when making a visit with her husband and daughter, something he had planned all along? ⭐️⭐️ Continue reading Not Without My Daughter (1991) Review

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Top 100 Best of the 1980s

80. NOT WITHOUT MY DAUGHTER

Betty Mahmoody and William Hoffer

1987

Not Without My Daughter is a 1987 autobiographical book by Betty Mahmoody detailing the escape of Betty and her daughter, Mahtob, from Betty's abusive husband in Iran. In 1977, Betty married Dr. Sayyed "Moody" Bozorg Mahmoody.

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My maternal grandmother could crochet.

Nothing complicated. Basic granny squares and double crochet, but she was the one in the family who made blankets for her kids and grandchildren. Dementia hit in her nineties but she still remembered how to make granny squares and made dozens. I asked her for one last blanket but by that point the dementia had taken how to join the squares. They were stacked in piles around the dining room table and when she went into care, into a plastic box for storage.

When she died, I asked for them. By that point I could crochet but didn't know how to join, and figured, someday, I'd learn.

It's at least a decade later. I'm the one who makes blankets for my nephews, for my cousin's children, for pregnant coworkers. Last year I made seven blankets, three for Project Linus, the rest for family and a friend. I can follow crochet charts, filet crochet, do clusters, fans, basic lace, amigurumi.

The world, as is its wont, is on fire. Tonight, I have opened the plastic container for the first time in a decade. I'm sorting them into piles by color. I know now how to look at them and see where her memory slipped or areas I'll need to repair. There's no printed pattern but if I need more I have the skills to copy the pattern.

Each square is 5 inches. Blanket size for Project Linus is 40x60. I'll see how many people I can give her last crochet legacy to.

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BETTY MAHMOODY

BETTY MAHMOODY

9 June 1945

NOT WITHOUT MY DAUGHTER

            Betty Mahmoody (Betty Lover) is best known for her memoir, Not Without My Daughter (1987) as well as the film which stars Sally Field (1991).

            In 1984, Betty left Michigan, US to go to Tehran, Iran with her husband Sayyed and their daughter Mahtob for a short holiday to visit his family. Once there she was trapped, her husband refused to let her return to America with their daughter. Her husband’s family was hostile towards her and her husband would abuse and threaten her. If she didn’t submit to his wishes he would punish her by not allowing her to see her daughter.

            With help from locals she was able to escape with her daughter to the American embassy in Turkey in 1986.

            Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody ‘Moody’ left Iran at the age of 18 to study English in London and then moved to the US in 1961 and became a doctor. He met Betty in 1974, they dated for three years and married in 1977 and lived in Texas. Their daughter, Mahtob was born in 1979 and the family moved to Michigan. He planned a two week holiday in Iran so they could visit his family. They arrived on 4 August 1984, when they arrived he told his wife and daughter that they won’t be returning to the US. When Betty said she wanted to return home, he hit her in front of Mahtob and she fell into a deep depression. When mother and daughter escaped Iran, Betty filed for a divorce. Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody died in Tehran in 2009, aged 70.

            Her daughter, Mahtob released her memoir; My Name is Mahtob (2015), which depicts her version of events. Mahtob said once they arrived in Iran that her father turned into a completely different person. Because her father was born in Iran, the father has legal custody of the children. After Mahtob returned to America she never got to see her father again.

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Book Review: Not Without My Daughter by: Betty Mahmoody

Initial Thoughts: When I was in high school, we sometimes had movie days. Those were days where we would not sit around and learn math or French, but watch a film. Usually, these films were used later for a purpose. For discussion, for essays, etc. It was rare that we watched a movie to simply give us a break (except at Christmas time or near the end of the year). I ended up watching Not Without…

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i was never the child you wanted

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Actually so tired that people mainly focus on the bdsm when they talk about La Pianiste when we literally have this dynamic right here. Like, that's insane.

What if you were a little girl in her 40's who couldn't grow up because of your mother-wife who made you sleep in her bed and forced you to repress every sexual desires and thoughts of becoming your own person just to keep you close to her ? What if you fought back and yearned for dangerous things out of her reach ? But also, what if you let her because it's all you've ever known and been taught to want ?

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