The Iranian Paradox
VIEW EVENT DETAILSLuncheon with
Dr. Haleh Isfandiari
Director of Middle East Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC
Haleh Esfandiari will discuss the domestic and foreign policy impasse in which Iran finds itself. Her latest book, My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran, based on her arrest by the Iranian security authorities in 2007, after which she spent 105 days in solitary confinement in Tehran's Evin Prison, was published in September 2009 and the paperback edition has just been released. She will be signing her books.
Dr. Esfandiari is currently the Director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. She taught Persian language, contemporary Persian literature, and courses on the women's movement in Iran at Princeton University. Prior to Princeton, she served as deputy secretary general of the Women's Organization of Iran and as the the deputy director of a cultural foundation, where she was responsible for the activities of several museums and art and cultural centers. She has also worked as a journalist in Iran.
She is the first recipient of an annual award established in her name. The Haleh Esfandiari Award was presented to Dr. Esfandiari by a group of businesswomen and activists from countries across the Middle East and North Africa region. She is also the recipient of the Special American Red Cross Award (2008), an honorary degree from Georgetown University Law Center (2008), and the Women's Equality Award from the National Council of Women's Organizations (2008).
Her writing has appeared in Foreign Policy, Journal of Democracy, Princeton Papers in Near Eastern Studies, The New Republic, Wilson Quarterly, Chronicle of Higher Education, Middle East Review, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, as well as in blogs such as the New York Review of Books blog and The Daily Beast.
Bar opens: 11:30 am
Lunch: 12:15 pm
Presentation and Q&A: 1:00 ' 2:00 pm
This event is co-hosted with Woman's National Democratic Club
Director of Middle East Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC
Haleh Esfandiari will discuss the domestic and foreign policy impasse in which Iran finds itself. Her latest book, My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran, based on her arrest by the Iranian security authorities in 2007, after which she spent 105 days in solitary confinement in Tehran's Evin Prison, was published in September 2009 and the paperback edition has just been released. She will be signing her books.
Dr. Esfandiari is currently the Director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. She taught Persian language, contemporary Persian literature, and courses on the women's movement in Iran at Princeton University. Prior to Princeton, she served as deputy secretary general of the Women's Organization of Iran and as the the deputy director of a cultural foundation, where she was responsible for the activities of several museums and art and cultural centers. She has also worked as a journalist in Iran.
She is the first recipient of an annual award established in her name. The Haleh Esfandiari Award was presented to Dr. Esfandiari by a group of businesswomen and activists from countries across the Middle East and North Africa region. She is also the recipient of the Special American Red Cross Award (2008), an honorary degree from Georgetown University Law Center (2008), and the Women's Equality Award from the National Council of Women's Organizations (2008).
Her writing has appeared in Foreign Policy, Journal of Democracy, Princeton Papers in Near Eastern Studies, The New Republic, Wilson Quarterly, Chronicle of Higher Education, Middle East Review, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, as well as in blogs such as the New York Review of Books blog and The Daily Beast.
Bar opens: 11:30 am
Lunch: 12:15 pm
Presentation and Q&A: 1:00 ' 2:00 pm
This event is co-hosted with Woman's National Democratic Club
Event Details
Tue 30 Nov 2010
Woman's National Democratic Club The Cinnabar Room 1526 New Hampshire Ave, NW Washington, D.C. 20036 washington, dc
Members: $25. Nonmembers: $30. Lecture-only (no lunch) $10.