Iranian American Academic and Former Prisoner Haleh Esfandiari to Speak at GWU
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Project Nur and the Elliot School of International Affairs will be welcoming Haleh Esfandiari to speak at GWU Wednesday, February 17th, 6:30-8:30 PM, in room 113 of the Elliot School of International Affairs building.
Haleh Esfandiari is a distinguished Iranian American public intellectual. The founding director of the Woodrow Wilson Center's Middle East Program, she is the former deputy secretary general of the Women's Organization of Iran and has taught at Princeton University. She has worked in Iran as a journalist and is the author of Reconstructed Lives: Women and Iran's Islamic Revolution.
Esfandiari will be speaking about her book My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran which follows her time detained at the notorious Evin Prison, where she would spend 105 days in solitary confinement and came face-to-face with the state of affairs between Iran and the United States.
Light refreshments will be served.
SOURCE Project Nur
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