''A must-read for anyone who cares about women''s equality'' Sheryl Sandberg
''A flame-thrower for the rights of women who live under the thumb of repression and injustice'' Tina Brown
BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
This memoir is the extraordinary story of how one woman, Masih Alinejad, an awe-inspiring journalist and activist from a small village in Iran, overcame enormous adversity to fight for what she truly believed and founded a major movement for women around the world with the simple removal of her hijab.
It all started with a single photo, a bold statement on Masih''s Facebook page: a woman standing proudly, her face bare, her beautiful, curly hair blowing in the wind. Her crime: simply removing her veil, or hijab, which is compulsory for women in Iran. This is the photo that sparked a social-media liberation movement, ''My Stealthy Freedom''. Across Iran, women started posting pictures of their uncovered hair on Masih''s page
