Other Side of Silence

When Mahnaz Afkhami picked up the phone in a New York hotel room early one morning in November 1978, she learned she could never go home again: she had been declared an apostate and enemy of the Iranian Revolution and was now on its death list. Afkhami, Iran''s first minister for women''s affairs, began to rebuild her life in the United States, becoming an architect of the women''s movement in the...