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SUMMARY:Open Wide the Doors: The Prison Memoirs of Mahvash Sabet
DESCRIPTION:In 2018\, during her brief respite of freedom between two deca
 de-long prison sentences\, Mahvash Sabet asked Bahiyyih Nakhjavani and Az
 ita Mottahedeh to work on her memoirs and make a book that could convey h
 er story in English. They set to work\, with Mottahedeh translating the P
 ersian original\, word for word\, and Nakhjavani attempting to structure 
 a narrative from the more than 750 pages of a harrowing and uplifting tes
 timony which Sabet smuggled out of prison over the years.\n\n“In this dis
 cussion\, we will explore the decisions involved and the methods followed
  in the course of creating this book\, as well as the distinctive charact
 eristics of Mahvash Sabet's style\, tone and intent\, which we hope have 
 survived the translation. We will share the ways in which this prison mem
 oir may be different from others and at the same time how it seems to bea
 r witness to the many which might never be written. Above all we will try
  to share Mahvash’s extraordinary capacity to transform despair into hope
 \, confinement into freedom\, and estrangement and isolation into a bound
 less compassion towards others.”\n\nBahiyyih Nakhjavani was born in Iran\
 , raised in Uganda\, and educated in the UK and the US. She received her 
 preliminary degrees in English Literature from the University of York in 
 the UK\, and completed her doctorate at UMass\, Amherst\, in the US\, as 
 well as being awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Liège in
  Belgium. In addition to teaching literature and creative writing over f\
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