The Stoning Of Soraya

Have you read this book or seen this movie?

After reading about this real life situation on Phyllis Chesler's blog today I know this is the next book I must read and I will do my best to find where this movie is playing as well.

"In it, Sahebjam writes that in contemporary Iran, “being born female is both a capital crime and a death sentence.”

"The book is a haunting and carefully rendered account of how, on August 15, 1986, a thirty-five-year-old woman was stoned to death in Kupayeh, Iran. Soraya, (peace be upon her), was lynched and stoned to death by the villagers with whom she had lived all her life. Her own father, her two sons, and her lying, greedy, heartless petty criminal of a husband, Ghorban-Ali, all threw the first stones."

To learn more please visit Phyllis's blog today.