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A review by bethpeninger
Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran by Shirin Ebadi
4.0
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My country, I will build you again,
If need be, with bricks made from my life.
I will build columns to support your roof,
If need be, with my bones.
I will inhale again the perfume of flowers
Favored by your youth.
I will wash again the blood off your body
With torrents of my tears.
(Simin Behbahani)
Ebadi closes her newest title with the above words from Iranian poet Simin Behbahani. It's a fitting wrap up to this book from Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi. Ebadi has spent her adult life fighting for human rights in her home country of Iran. She's accomplished much as a woman in that culture, she's a lawyer, she served as a Judge in Tehran's courts for a number of years, and she has led several different movements fighting for equality. She's a worldwide speaker, being invited to speak at prestigious venues all over. She's also currently in exile from her home country of Iran. If she enters back in they will arrest her. So she continues to fight for her country outside of her country. She is relentless, tireless, and compelling.
I'm grateful to have read this account from Ebadi. To have insight into a country that so often the media I see about it is negative. To hear from someone who loves the nation and reveals its humanity. To read about the fight for human rights and realize, in many ways, the things we fight for in our individual nations are universal. Ebadi has the endurance that is necessary in order for countries to progress. Along with others who possess the same drive and passion, Iran's quest for human rights will one day be realized through Ebadi's tireless efforts.
My country, I will build you again,
If need be, with bricks made from my life.
I will build columns to support your roof,
If need be, with my bones.
I will inhale again the perfume of flowers
Favored by your youth.
I will wash again the blood off your body
With torrents of my tears.
(Simin Behbahani)
Ebadi closes her newest title with the above words from Iranian poet Simin Behbahani. It's a fitting wrap up to this book from Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi. Ebadi has spent her adult life fighting for human rights in her home country of Iran. She's accomplished much as a woman in that culture, she's a lawyer, she served as a Judge in Tehran's courts for a number of years, and she has led several different movements fighting for equality. She's a worldwide speaker, being invited to speak at prestigious venues all over. She's also currently in exile from her home country of Iran. If she enters back in they will arrest her. So she continues to fight for her country outside of her country. She is relentless, tireless, and compelling.
I'm grateful to have read this account from Ebadi. To have insight into a country that so often the media I see about it is negative. To hear from someone who loves the nation and reveals its humanity. To read about the fight for human rights and realize, in many ways, the things we fight for in our individual nations are universal. Ebadi has the endurance that is necessary in order for countries to progress. Along with others who possess the same drive and passion, Iran's quest for human rights will one day be realized through Ebadi's tireless efforts.