by Masih Alinejad
Little, Brown and Company. 2018. 394 pgs. Biography
Masih Alinejad relates her life story and her present activism for women’s rights in Iran. Her story is a compelling one as she recounts her childhood and the youthful idealism that led her to a period in prison and subsequent activism. Blocked by her prison history from further education and many jobs in Iran, she became a journalist covering the political events and corruption in the Iranian Majlis. In 2009, with a presidential election looming in Iran, she was pressured by the regime to leave the country. Since then she has lived abroad and carries on her activism from the freedom of London and the U.S. One of her major projects is to help Iranian women stand against the forced wearing of the hijab (covering for the head, and often the face and body as well) through her Facebook page “My Stealthy Freedom.” Iranian women send her photos of themselves without the hijab and she puts them on "My Stealthy Freedom." She feels that the hijab represents all the repression that women in Iranian society experience, making the compulsory hijab a worthy target of her activism. SH
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