February 22, 2019, 7:30 pm
FreePrisoner of Tehran
Marina Nemat’s bestselling Prisoner of Tehran chronicled her arrest, torture, and two-year imprisonment in the notorious Evin prison as a teenager in 1980s revolutionary Iran. In her new book, Nemat provides a riveting account of her escape from Iran and her journey to Canada, via Hungary, with her husband and infant son in 1991. ' مارينا” ― Marina Nemat, quote from Prisoner of Tehran “Moving to America felt as splitting and eternal as death.” ― Marina Nemat, quote from Prisoner of Tehran “You have to know that death is only a step we have to take to reach the other world and live, only in a different way.”. The autobiography Prisoner of Tehran tells the story of author Marina Nemat’s teenage imprisonment in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison. Several fellow prisoners in Tehran's brutal Evin prison were executed that night, but Marina was spared, literally at the last minute. A pardon from Ayatollah Khomeini himself had commuted her sentence to life imprisonment. One of her prison guards had fallen in love with her.
Prisoner of Tehran. Does Marina have a positive relationship with her family? Throughout the novel, Marina describes several different 'family' experiences. She has the family she is born into, she has her 'family' of women in Evin, and she has the family she gains after she marries Ali. Using evidence form the novel, discuss.
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Prisoner of Teheran is a unique collaboration between Marina Nemat and MOTUS O Dance Theatre. This performance is a synthesis of dance, theatre and story telling that deals with social justice on the theme of Oppression and Freedom. It is a multi-disciplinary performance with Marina’s character telling her story in her own words, based on her bestselling book, “Prisoner of Tehran”.
Marina Nemat was born in 1965 in Tehran, Iran. After the Islamic Revolution of 1979, she was arrested at the age of sixteen and spent more than two years in Evin, a political prison in Tehran, where she was tortured and came very close to execution. She came to Canada in 1991 and has called it home ever since. Her memoir of her life in Iran, Prisoner of Tehran, was published in Canada by Penguin Canada in 2007, has been published in 28 other countries, and is an international bestseller.
The presentation will be followed by a Q & A with the dancers of Motus O Dance Theatre.
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