Open Wide the Doors: A Memoir of Faith, Hope and Freedom in Iran

A courageous memoir from a prize-winning poet and prisoner of conscience in Iran

'Against the scale of Iran's past, her testimony reinforces the power of individual conscience and endurance as the only way forward.' -Financial Times

In March 2008, the Intelligence Bureau of Mashhad summoned Mahvash Sabet. She told her husband she would be back home in Tehran by the evening. She wouldn't be released for ten years. The authorities would go on to arrest every other member of the Yárán-i-Irán, th...