Justine Harun-Mahdavi

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Justine Harun-Mahdavi (Haas) Born 11th June 1945 in Morbach/ Germany217.249.203.188 16:58, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Justine came to Iran 1968 and lived with her husband and two children in different cities (mainly in Kerman, Mashhad and Tehran) in Iran for more than 11 years. Her husband Masoud was in different political positions. He was twice the Grand-Mayor of the wholy city of Mashhad. He also was once Mayor in the capitalcity Tehran. Due to his popularity among the people, he even was a member of the new government during the first months of the Islamic Republic. But he soon understood that the theocratic regime was not on the way to bring democracy and freedom to the iranian people. So Justine and her family left Iran in September 1979. Her husband is an active and wellknown member of the democratic iranian opposition called "Jebhe Melli". She visited Iran together with her daughter an son again in 2000. Justine is today living in a town close to Munich in Germany. She is always supporting the iranian people, since she had made best experiences as a christian german woman in Iran. In her recently published Book Not Without My Husband she pleads for freedom and democracy in Iran and for tolerance towards all nations, religions and cultures in the world.

[edit] See also

• Iran
• Not Without My Husband
• Persian culture
• Without My Daughter

[edit] External links

• Not Without My Husband (Deutsche Welle: in Persian)
• Nicht ohne meinen Mann. Erinnerungen einer deutschen Frau an ihre Zeit im Iran

Justine Harun-Mahdavi (born 1945) is a german woman who lived in Iran between 1968 and 1979. She ist the writer of the recently published book "Not without my husband"

Her memoir Not Without My Husband describes her life with her Persian (Iranian) husband and two children in Iran. The book offers a direct view of the Iranian society as seen by a Westerner.