Unveiled: One Woman's Nightmare in Iran (Unveiled)

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Summary: Unveiled
Review: First on the writing style. This book is extremely hard to read and difficult to follow because she skips around too much and gets off subject. One minute she's 30-something, next line she flashes back to age 10 with no warning. I am an American Muslim and I don't pretend to know everything that goes on the world, especially in Shia Iran. So I can't say if she is telling the truth or not but for God's sake why do you expect IRAN to be like UK? It makes no sence to me to complain about all the stuff that happened when it was HER own decision to go there, not once but TWICE. If it was too much to handle the fisrt time WHY GO BACK? I think she brought all her hardship on herself. Not every Muslim is going to be as strict as the next. If you can't handle it, find a more laidback environment and live the kind of life you want. Don't go to one of the strictest countries (Shia/Islam-wise) and expect the country to change for you. AHHHHHH!

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Summary: Inaccurate
Review: Having been born to a well educated professional Iranian family myself, and having lived in Iran during those post revolutionary years, I find it very hard to believe that an Oxford educated woman in her mid thirties, would claim to come from "nobility" and to have family members married off at 14 yrs of age tolerating wife beating husbands who would take additional wives and steal their fortune. I also cannot understand how a woman who has been brought up in the West and is supposedly a journalist, would jump into a marriage with a revolutionary without investigating the person's background, to later discover that he had another wife??? These are just a few questions that would cross any reader's mind.
During the 13 years which I lived in post-revolutionary Iran, I had only heard about these type occurences in the lower middle class or low SES families. I have seen Iranian women (those who I associated with) as very dignified, well educated and respectable (and respected by their husbands). If they were to fall into a trap as described by Ms. Mostashar, they would get out. Any person who has some understanding of the changes which have taken place after the falling of the Shah's regime would attest to how the Women's rights movement in Iran has progressed. I think Mrs. Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner would say the same. I do not claim that the system is perfect, but it is definitely improving. I think that the likes of Ms. Mostashar and Ms. Betty Mahmoudi have had bad experiences, with some trashy people in Iran, and have used their experience as a means of generalizing and stereotyping the Iranians. Also, Ms. Mostashar has somewhat turned her "biography" into a trashy novel, which may be a marketing technique-this is quite distasteful. It appears that this biography has been used to seek revenge rather than to inform.

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Summary: Dont waste your time with this so called book.
Review: I will be very brief.This book is outdated,exaggerated,and most of it is nonsense.The writer although might have written some of this book truthfuly,has put in the book many half truths and it really turned me off.I would recommend to the writer that she should not pursue writing as an avenue to make a living.

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Summary: Unveiled
Review: The first half of this book is totally frustrating. There are too many characters and the family tree is virtually useless. The second half is exasperating. Here is a woman of so called nobility and educated who, in rebellion against her upbringing, marries an inferior, rude, sexist, demanding, and controlling gigolo. The reader can only tire of her rationalizing a destructive marriage, conceived and executed with her consent. The only kind thing I can say for Cherry is that perhaps her rebellion against her parents, who ruled and dominated her early dating life, responded in the only way she knew how. Choose someone totally and completely the opposite of anyone they would have chosen for her. Well done....but why punish yourself?

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Summary: this book is out of date
Review: this book was written a long time ago in the perspective of iranian time this is a country who experienced a reveloution 20 years ago it is fast developing - the account of no makeup being allowed is out of date along with many other issues. Iran is developing very quickly and even though it is true that now women are much freer. (i visited iran summer 2000) Even 3 years ago most of the freedoms i took for granted this year were non-exsistant - iran is a rapidly developing country and this is an account of one womans experiences. I think it is good to make people aware of the suffering which has occured and still occurs - and the fact wich is still very much a reality that women, at least in public veiw are classed as a controlled sex and have very little choice in their public lives because of the governments need to control - but it gives a bad veiw of iran. Literature about Iran must be like the country itself developing, read this book but keep in mind, people deal with situations in different ways - there are many different families and lives in Iran and this is only a (now almost outdated) glimps into one of the lives - lets hope Iran keeps developing and stories like this become wholly outdated because in my opinion Iran is a beautiful and historical country who can benfit with the freedom of both its men and women.