Iranian-American Scholar Haleh Esfandiari
Fall for the Book Event
Past Event
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EDT
Research I, Room 163
Scholar and journalist Esfandiari, founder of the Woodrow Wilson Center's Middle East Division, was detained and then imprisoned in her native Iran by authorities who suspected her of plotting to overthrow the Iranian government. Her new memoir, My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran, offers a behind-the-scenes account of her harsh ordeals and ultimate release, a poignant memoir of growing up in Iran, and an on-the-ground history of relations between the U.S. and Iran under four presidents.
