Prisoner of Tehran

“God does not test us to see whether we pass or not. In all tests, God wants to bring forth our best and manifest the beauties of our soul.”

Prisoner of Tehran is a beautiful memoir of a Christian girl, Marina Nemat who runs us through her horrific memories of Evin. Unsurprisingly, she keeps us thrilled, horrified and expectant even when she wrote the manuscript that burned her from inside. First of all, Was she a rebel? Was she someone who had to be arrested? Only authorities of Evin could answer. Even if they answered, Marina Nemat or most probably, we ourselves would land ourselves in Evin for questioning them.

Her childhood flew by her days watching the Caspian sea, allowing herself to indulge in the sea that gifted her beautiful memories. Through her early years, she navigates, reads, learns, cleans, spends time with her grandmother, and falls in love before losing a few rivets that she held close. As the last nail, she gets arrested for suspicion which turns into brutal torture that affects her physically and mentally. Whipped, brainstormed and questioned, she is the epitome of bravery that the definition holds. Well, her life doesn’t end there! Even though the physical torture had ended, a condition to keep her alive made her restless and a traitor in her own eyes as she accepted it without any choice left. Leaving whatever she had left, she loses her life again when the charade ends at a point that left her partly depressed and denounced until a few people emerge to help her! It rises a spirit in her and she is left with the bravery she held close with her only motto to the next phase of life - Do and Live/Die.

From being the rebellious girl to the courageous women who has a tough time accepting the new challenges and moving on, Marina's character only grows in and out of Evin. With the history behind the prison and prisoners in Iran and Iraq read through history and connecting with the current war situations in Ukraine and Palestine, it comes as a remainder of what people go through. Starting from a child, she grew up to be one of the strongest feminine characters one could ask for. It is one of the best survival memoirs that has been read by a million people and without a doubt, strikes a chord with every girl who has survived anything like this, with or without intention! After all, if Marina Nemat endured these, why don’t we put a show of bravery and pat ourselves?

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