Mahtob Mahmoody

Mahtob Mahmoody
مهتاب محمودى
Born (1979-09-04) September 4, 1979 (age 45)
Houston, Texas, U.S.
OccupationAuthor
Known forHer memoir, My Name is Mahtob
Parent(s)Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody (father)
Betty Lover (mother)

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]

  1. ^ a b "Not Without My Daughter". Chasing the Frog.
  2. ^ Pohl, Scott (8 February 2016). "Revisiting 'Not Without My Daughter' with Mahtob Mahmoody". WKAR-FM. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  3. ^ Martin, Rachel (29 November 2015). "'Not Without My Daughter' Subject Grows Up, Tells Her Own Story". NPR. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
  4. ^ O'Callaghan, Billy (16 April 2016). "Book review: My Name Is Mahtob". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 11 May 2016.