For a few days this summer, the drama unfolding in Operating Theater 11 at Singapore’s Raffles Hospital gripped the world. In the lobby six floors below, more than 60 journalists had transformed the 29-year-old Iranian women into celebrities. CNN was broadcasting hourly updates worldwide. In the US, network news shows were jockeying to book the surgeons for interviews. A crew from Good Morning America was on its way to Singapore.
