Iran awakening : a memoir of revolution and hope

The Nobel Peace Prize 2003 Shirin Ibadi "for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children"

Human rights activist and lawyer, Shirin Ibadi won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2003.  Prior to the 1979 revolution in Iran, she was the first woman judge in that country, and she recounts her challenges as a woman, mother and lawyer in a country that was in turmoil.