Sarah Shourd
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A Sarah Shourd is an American journalist, author and playwright. She is an advocate against the overuse of solitary confinement in prisons. In 2009 and 2010, she was held as a political hostage in Ira
Shourd at the BraveMaker Film Festival in 2026
A Sliver of Light
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A Sliver of Light: Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran is a 2014 memoir by Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal, and Sarah Shourd, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Eamon Dolan. It discusses the 2009–11 det
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…while the two were in prison. They married on May 5, 2012 in California, and subsequently divorced in 2019. Bibliography Books Year Title Notes 2014 A Sliver of Light Co-authored with Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal 2016 Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement Editor, along with James Ridgeway and…
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