Marina Nemat

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Marina Nemat (* 1965 as Marina Moradi in Tehran ) is an Iranian - Canadian author.

Her father Nicholas (Gholamreza) Moradi (* 1921, † 2012 in Toronto) was a dance teacher, her mother a hairdresser in Tehran. In her youth as a Russian Orthodox Christian, she experienced the overthrow of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi by Ayatollah Khomeini in the course of the Islamic Revolution in 1979 . Nemat resisted Islamic indoctrination. On January 15, 1982, at the age of 16, Nemat was arrested along with other classmates for publishing a banned school magazine. She was interrogated in Evin Prison , tortured and eventually sentenced to death by an express court . She escaped shooting because she was married to a prison guard who also remained her guard. Because of his family's efforts, she was released after 2 years, 2 months and 12 days in detention. Her husband Ali Moosavi was later murdered by the Revolutionary Guard .

She secretly married her childhood sweetheart, the electrical engineer Andre Nemat . The couple fled to Canada in 1991; it has two sons. Marina Nemat worked for the Swiss Chalet restaurant chain in Aurora and wrote her memoirs in 78,000 words. After their experiences, many other victims remain silent about their experiences.

Her book Prisoner of Tehran was published by 27 publishers worldwide (2012). The book was published in Germany under the title I don't ask for my life. A theater adaptation of the book was staged at the Theater Passe Muraille in Toronto under the direction of Maja Ardal.

In 2010 Nemat's second book "After Tehran, A Life Reclaimed" was published, in which she deals with the post-traumatic healing process and fills in gaps in her first book.

Nemat lives today (as of 2013) with her husband in a suburb of Toronto. She teaches part-time at the University of Toronto and regularly shares her experiences with high school classes, universities, libraries and clubs. She is a regular participant in the Oslo Freedom Forum . In 2012 she was a guest speaker at the San Francisco Freedom Forum of the Human Rights Foundation together with Aung San Suu Kyi and Garri Kimowitsch Kasparow .

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  1. ^ My home, my horror. In: Toronto Star , April 22, 2007
  2. ↑ http://www.slopenagency.com/sa/marinanemat?page=0%2C1
  3. ↑ Marina Nemat: I'm not asking for my life . From the American by Holger Fock and Sabine Müller. Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg 2007, 392 p. Ill., Hardcover.

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SURNAME Nemat, Marina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian author
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran