Is mahtob mahmoody married
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'Not Without My Daughter' all grown up in Michigan
Laid out for the visitor on an immaculate white tablecloth is a breakfast of abundant hospitality — bowls of walnuts, feta cheese, softened butter and small oven-warmed pitas.
It’s what Mahtob Mahmoody ate for breakfast as a preschooler growing up in Alpena, the child of an Iranian-born doctor and his Michigan-bred wife. It’s what she ate during nearly two years in Iran, when an abusive father forced his wife and daughter to stay in Tehran during the height of anti-American sentiment in the mid-1980s under the reign of the Ayatollah Khomeini. And it’s what daughter and mother still eat and serve guests, nearly 31 years after their harrowing escape from Iran, a journey depicted in the movie “Not Without My Daughter” starring Sally Field.
“This is a traditional Persian breakfast," explains Mahtob Mahmoody, now 36, “and we do this for ourselves, not just for visitors.”
The little girl depicted in the 1991 movie has written her own book, about how she made emotional and mental peace with her father, even as she and her mother
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Sayed Mahmoody Biography
Sayed Mahmoody trained in the UK and the USA. He lived and worked in America for more than twenty years where he established a successful practice as an anaesthetist and consultant in Osteopathic Manipulative Therapy (OMT). OMT is a holistic treatment that deals with the patient as a whole being. OMT practitioners use their hands to apply pressure on muscles, nerves and joints – to relieve pain, stiffness and tension in the whole body.
An aristocratic Iranian by birth. Sayed’s mother and father died by the time he was eight-years-old, and he was raised by his sister. Although a strict Muslim, he believed that Islam is a religion of tolerance, enlightenment and peace.
Sayed returned to Iran with his wife, Betty and daughter, Mahtob with the aim of using his medical knowledge to help treat the victims of the Iran-Iraq war. Days after his green-card expired, Betty left Terhan without warning, taking Mahtob with her on a Swissair Flight to the US. She then divorced Sayed in a US court where he had no voice, so gaining control of all the f
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Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody
Iranian anesthesiologist and hostage-taker
Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody | |
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| Born | 1938 or 1939 Shushtar, Pahlavi Iran |
| Died | (aged 70) Tehran, Iran |
| Occupation | Anaesthesiologist |
| Spouse | Betty Lover (m. 1977; div. 1989) |
| Children | Mahtob |
Sayyed Bozorg "Moody" Mahmoody[1] (Persian: سيد بزرگ محمودى; c. 1939 – August 23, 2009) was an Iranian professor, engineer, and anesthesiologist, best-known for taking his American ex-wife Betty and their daughter Mahtob to his native country and keeping them hostage there for a period of eighteen months during the mid-1980s.[2][3]
Early life
Mahmoody was born to a prominent family in Shushtar. Mahmoody's father, a doctor, died when Mahmoody was a toddler, and he had few memories of him. His mother, also a doctor, died when he was eight years old, and he was raised by his older sister.[4][5][6]
Mahmoody left Iran at the age of 18 to study English in London.
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