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Young Iranian woman’s harsh lesson in brutality of regime

Posted by Matt in January 3rd, 2008

The power of Zarah Ghahramani’s chilling memoir, “My Life as a Traitor,” is in the discovery - hers and ours - that in Iran such routine student activism can have devastating consequences. In riveting prose, she and her co-author, journalist Robert Hillman, tell the story of how Ghahramani was plucked from the street after a protest against the firing of a beloved teacher, and secretly incarcerated in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, without inquiry or trial.

She was just 20, and comes across as very young, sheltered and naive, even for 20. In alternating chapters, as she chronicles her terror at being interrogated, beaten and tortured, protesting that she’s far too cowardly to withstand whatever pain may be coming, she pines heartbreakingly for her parents, and tells the story of her life.

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