It started as a two-week family holiday, became a two-year battle for freedom – and ended in a daring escape. The true story of six-year-old Mahtob Mahmoody’s desperate flight to safety from Iran was ...

The daughter of Betty Mahmoody, who became famous when the story of her and her mother's escape from Iran was made into Hollywood film Not Without My Daughter, has released her own account of the ...

Mahtob Mahmoody in her west Michigan home. She'll talk about 'My Name is Mahtob" Thursday at the Schuler book store in the Meridian Mall. In “Not Without My Daughter,” Betty Mahmoody told the story of ...

In the second part of Scott Pohl’s conversation with Mahtob Mahmoody, author of “My Name is Mahtob”, she describes forgiving her father for holding her and her mother captive in Iran when she was a ...

Not Without My Daughter, Betty Mahmoody’s bestselling book from 1987, detailed domestic abuse within her Iranian-American family, focusing particularly on the kidnapping carried out by her husband and ...

Laid out for the visitor on an immaculate white tablecloth is a breakfast of abundant hospitality — bowls of walnuts, feta cheese, softened butter and small oven-warmed pitas. It’s what Mahtob ...

DETROIT — Laid out for the visitor on an immaculate white tablecloth is a breakfast of abundant hospitality: bowls of walnuts, feta cheese, softened butter and small oven-warmed pitas. Such fare is ...

More than anything, Mahtob Mahmoody remembered the sound of her father’s footsteps coming up the hall. “His footsteps changed – loud, angry footsteps getting closer to the door. That’s seared in my ...

Like most people, Mahtob Mahmoody Googles herself every once in a while. But it’s not for fun. The 29-year-old community relations professional searches her name online to make sure there’s no address ...

Prisoner: Mahtob Mahmoody was kidnapped by her father Betty begged him to cancel the trip – the country was still in turmoil after the Islamic revolution and the US embassy hostage crisis, and was ...

Mahtob Mahmoody and her mum Betty were duped into visiting her dad's homeland and their desperate flight to safety was turned into a Hollywood movie Get daily headlines and breaking news alerts for ...