Bozorg mahmoody biography books
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Not Without My Daughter
'You are here for the rest of your life. Do you understand? You are not leaving Iran. You are here until you die.'
Betty Mahmoody and her husband, Dr Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody ('Moody'), came to Iran from the USA to meet Moody's family. With them was their four-year-old daughter, Mahtob. Appalled by the squalor of their living conditions, horrified by what she saw of a country where women are merely chattels and Westerners are despised, Betty soon became desperate to return to the States. But Moody, and his often vicious family, had other plans. Mother and daughter became prisoners of an alien culture, hostages of an increasingly tyrannical and violent man.
Betty began to try to arrange an escape. Evading Moody's sinister spy network, she secretly met sympathisers opposed to Khomeini's savage regime. But every scheme that was suggested to her meant leaving Mahtob behind for ever...
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Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody
Iranian anesthesiologist and hostage-taker
Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody | |
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Born | 1938 or 1939 Shushtar, Pahlavi Iran |
Died | (aged 70) Tehran, Iran |
Occupation | Anaesthesiologist |
Spouse | Betty Lover (m. 1977; div. 1989) |
Children | Mahtob |
Sayyed Bozorg "Moody" Mahmoody[1] (Persian: سيد بزرگ محمودى; c. 1939 – August 23, 2009) was an Iranian professor, engineer, and anesthesiologist, best-known for taking his American ex-wife Betty and their daughter Mahtob to his native country and keeping them hostage there for a period of eighteen months during the mid-1980s.[2][3]
Early life
[edit]Mahmoody was born to a prominent family in Shushtar. Mahmoody's father, a doctor, died when Mahmoody was a toddler, and he had few memories of him. His mother, also a doctor, died when he was eight years old, and he was raised by his older sister.[4][5][6]
Mahmoody left Iran at the age of 18 to study English in London. He moved to the United States in 1961,[7] where he became a university mathematics professor and an engineer. He worked for NASA during the 1960s, then went to medical school and became an
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