Volume 41, Number 14 · August 11, 1994
Prisoners of the Ayatollah
By Shaul Bakhash
From Palace to Prison: Inside the Iranian Revolution
by Ehsan Naraghi, translated by Nilon Mobasser
Ivan R. Dee, 283 pp., $28.95
Death Plus Ten Years
by Roger Cooper
HarperCollins, 330 pp., £7.99 (paper)
Ehsan Naraghi, an Iranian, and Roger Cooper, an Englishman, both served time in Khomeini's prisons, Naraghi for nearly three years and Cooper for over five. Naraghi is a prominent intellectual and sociologist who has written widely on Iranian and third world social and cultural issues. Cooper lived and worked in Iran for some twenty years as a journalist, English teacher, translator, speech-writer, businessman, and consultant. Their prison memoirs shed considerable light on the nightmarish world of the Islamic Republic's jails, courts, and judicial system. We learn how Naraghi and Cooper managed to survive in prison and how they tried to use the judicial system to extricate themselves without surrendering their personal dignity or integrity.
Review, 4988 words
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