Haleh Esfandiari & Greg Mortenson books
When one grows up in a civil society, it’s hard to imagine the life in the countries that don’t follow a similar path. I recently chanced upon a book by Haleh Esfandiari, an Iranian woman who, being an Iranian-American academic in the US Wilson Centre, was firstly robbed and then imprisoned, while visiting her elderly mother in Iran. The book offers ins…
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