Mahtob Mahmoody in her west Michigan home. She'll talk about 'My Name is Mahtob" Thursday at the Schuler book store in the Meridian Mall. In “Not Without My Daughter,” Betty Mahmoody told the story of ...

ELEANOR HALL: Let's now hear from the US citizen whose extraordinary escape from Iran was turned into a Hollywood film.. American-born Mahtob Mahmoody was only 6 years old when she and her mother ...

Not Without My Daughter, Betty Mahmoody’s bestselling book from 1987, detailed domestic abuse within her Iranian-American family, focusing particularly on the kidnapping carried out by her husband and ...

It started as a two-week family holiday, became a two-year battle for freedom – and ended in a daring escape. The true story of six-year-old Mahtob Mahmoody’s desperate flight to safety from Iran was ...

(WZZM) -- Her story was first told in her mother's Pulitzer Prize-nominated book, turned major motion picture, "Not Without My Daughter." Now, she's telling her own story, and we spoke with her ...

The daughter in 1987’s book “Not Without My Daughter” comes to Culpeper tonight as the featured speaker at the annual Candlelight Vigil for victims and survivors of domestic violence and sexual ...

The daughter of Betty Mahmoody, who became famous when the story of her and her mother's escape from Iran was made into Hollywood film Not Without My Daughter, has released her own account of the ...

DETROIT — Laid out for the visitor on an immaculate white tablecloth is a breakfast of abundant hospitality: bowls of walnuts, feta cheese, softened butter and small oven-warmed pitas. Such fare is ...

Laid out for the visitor on an immaculate white tablecloth is a breakfast of abundant hospitality — bowls of walnuts, feta cheese, softened butter and small oven-warmed pitas. It’s what Mahtob ...

It's been almost 25 years since a film called "Not Without My Daughter" captured the world's attention and thrust a Michigan mother and her child into the international spotlight. The movie starred ...

"Not Without My Daughter" told the story of an American mother and daughter fleeing Iran. Now that young girl is telling her own story in her memoir, "My Name is Mahtob." It's been almost 25 years ...