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Mahtob Mahmoody

American author (born 1979)

Mahtob Maryam Mahmoody (Persian: مهتاب محمودى; born September 4, 1979)[1] is an American author who wrote the autobiographical memoir My Name is Mahtob,[2][3] which depicts her perspective of her family's story when she and her mother, Betty Mahmoody, were held captive by her father, Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody, in his country of birth, Iran, for a period of 18 months during the mid 1980s.[4] Her mother wrote her version of their story in her 1987 biography Not Without My Daughter, which was adapted into a 1991 feature film of the same name in which Mahtob was portrayed by Sheila Rosenthal and her parents were portrayed by Sally Field and Alfred Molina.[1]

Biography

Mahtob was born to parents Betty Lover and Sayyed Bozorg "Moody" Mahmoody in Houston on September 4, 1979.[1][5] Her first name means "Moonlight" in Persian.[6] It was her father who named her that after he was inspired by a full moon.[5] Mahtob has two half-brothers throu

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Betty Mahmoody

WRITER

1945 - Today

Betty Mahmoody

Betty Mahmoody (née Lover; born June 9, 1945) is an American author and public speaker best known for her book, Not Without My Daughter, which was subsequently made into a film of the same name. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Betty Mahmoody has received more than 1,361,791 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Betty Mahmoody is the 3,436th most popular writer (down from 2,972nd in 2019), the 4,383rd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,894th in 2019) and the 362nd most popular American Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Betty Mahmoody ranks 3,436 out of 7,302. Before her are Mikhail Prishvin, Natallia Arsiennieva, René Barjavel, Erik Gustaf Geijer, Nobuko Yoshiya, and Booker T. Washington. After her are Robert K

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Betty Mahmoody

Author and Public Speaker

Betty Mahmoody (née Lover; born June 9, 1945) is an American author and public speaker best known for her book, Not Without My Daughter, which was subsequently made into a film of the same name. She is the President and co-founder of One World: For Children, an organization that promotes understanding between cultures and strives to offer security and protection to children of bi-cultural marriages.

Not Without My Daughter

Her book, Not Without My Daughter, is an account of her experiences in 1984–1986 when she left Alpena, Michigan to go to Iran with her husband and daughter for what she was promised would be a short visit. Once there, she and her daughter were held against their will. The book was made into a 1991 film starring Sally Field as Betty.

According to the book, she and her husband, Sayyed Bozorg “Moody” Mahmoody, and their daughter, Mahtob Mahmoody, traveled to Iran in August 1984 for what her husband said would be a two-week visit with his family in Tehran. Once the two weeks were over, however, he

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