Ghazal Omid

Ghazal Omid
Ghazal Omid
Omid in 2011
BornAbadan, Iran
OccupationAuthor, legal scholar
CitizenshipCanada
GenreAutobiography
Notable worksLiving in Hell

Ghazal Omid (Persian غزل امید‏[1]) is an Iranian-Canadian author. She wrote an autobiographical work entitled Living in Hell: A True Odyssey of a Woman's Struggle in Islamic Iran Against Personal and Political Forces. She is known in the United States as an advocate for human rights and women's rights and is also a Shi'a legal scholar.[2]

  1. ^ "مصاحبه با غزل امید، نویسنده كتاب زندگی در جهنم، مقیم كانادا" [Interview with Ghazal Omid, citizen of Canada, the author of the book "Living in Hell"]. رادیو فردا (in Persian). 28 November 2006. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
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