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Title:
Company of Women Toronto Networking Dinner
Date/Time:
Wednesday, 25/06/08 17:30 - 21:30
Description:
Prisoner of Tehran With Marina Nemat

Company of Women Toronto Networking Dinner
Verity Club
111d Queen St E
Toronto

5.30-7.00 pm - networking
7.00-9.30pm – dinner and speaker

In 1982 Marina Nemat was sixteen, and was arrested on false charges by Iranian Revolutionary Guards and tortured in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison.

What happened to her seems a world away and in many ways it was. At a time when most teenaged girls are choosing their prom dresses, Nemat was listening to gunshots as her teenage friends were being executed. She only escaped this fate because one of the guards married her.

When she is released from prison she is reunited with the man who waited for her. They marry and emigrate to Canada in 1991. She has since written the best selling book – Prisoner of Tehran – A Memoir in which she shares her story of courage, and a love that endured.


$50 for members/$65 for non-members + GST+ $5 if pay at door includes three-course dinner, speaker and cash bar

Deadline for Registration: June 20

Contact Info: Anne Day 905 338 1771
Country:
Canada
Province/State:
Ontario
City:
Oakville, ON
Contact Name:
Anne Day
Contact E-mail:
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Event Website:
http://www.companyofwomen.ca