Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope

Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope (Random House, May 2, 2006, ISBN 1-4000-6470-8) is a memoir written by Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi.

In her book, Ebadi provides an eyewitness account of one woman standing at the crossroads of history. Ebadi recounts her public career and reveals her private self: her faith, her experiences, and her desire to lead a traditional life, even while serving as a rebellious voice in a land where such voices are muted and even silenced by brute force. Ebadi describes her girlhood in a modest Tehran household, her education, and her early professional success as Iran’s most accomplished female jurist in the mid-1970s. She speaks eloquently about the ideals of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and of her deep disillusionment with the direction Iran has taken since.