Not Without My Daughter Book Summary. Bozorg sayyed mahmoody — or “moody,” as she calls him throughout the book — to assimilate and his “regression” into both islam and violence toward women. The first edition of the novel was published in 1987, and was written by betty mahmoody.
Not without my daughter essaysthe movie i chose to watch was not without my daughter which shows the ways the muslim religion treat women as inferior. Betty mahmoody wrote not without my daughter because it was based on real life events, that took place in her own life. Not without my daughter is a biographical book by betty mahmoody detailing the escape of betty and her daughter, mahtob, from betty's abusive husband in iran.
Mahmoody details her husband’s rapid deterioration from an industrious, virile, and thoroughly americanized medical doctor into an abusive, impotent lunatic shortly after their.
She sees the pregnancy as an unimaginable tragedy for both lily and herself. Not without my daughter 432. Sayed bozorg mahmoody in 1977. Not without my daughter narrates at length the inability of dr.