Trapped in Tehran

In the early hours of December 30, 2006, Haleh Esfandiari, the founding director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC, left her mother’s apartment in Tehran and hailed a taxi to go to the

My Prison, My Home One Woman’s Story of Captivity in Iran

By Haleh Esfandiari

Harper Press, €20.40

In the early hours of December 30, 2006, Haleh Esfandiari, the founding director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC, left her mother’s apartment in Tehran and hailed a taxi to go to the airport, where she was due to catch a plane back to the United ...