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Iran Awakening

by Shirin Ebadi
Azadeh Moaveni
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Shirin Ebadi—Nobel Peace Prize–winning lawyer, former judge, and human rights advocate—has spent her life confronting systems that silence women and suppress dissent. In this powerful memoir, she traces her journey from a progressive childhood in pre-revolutionary Iran to the front lines of legal battles against an increasingly authoritarian state.
As one of Iran’s first female judges, Ebadi was stripped of her position after the 1979 Revolution, when religious authorities barred women from serving on the bench. Refusing to retreat, she rebuilt her career as a human rights lawyer, defending women, children, and political prisoners in cases few others would touch—including her representation of the family of Canadian photojournalist Zara Kazemi, who died in Iranian custody.
Writing with clarity and moral force, Ebadi recounts the personal cost of dissent: sustained threats and intimidation, periods of detention and interrogation, eventual exile, and the constant challenge of raising a family under political pressure. Her story offers an essential perspective on the intersections of faith, feminism, and the rule of law—and on the enduring struggle for justice in Iran and beyond.
At a moment when women’s rights and democratic freedoms are again under siege worldwide, Ebadi’s memoir reads not as distant history, but as warning—and as a call to conscience.

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