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SAIS Hosted Book Event discussing Haleh Esfandiari's book, My Prision, My Home.

On Thursday, October 9, Azar Nafisi, executive director of SAIS Cultural Conversations welcomed Haleh Esfandiari for a reading and discussion of her new book, My Prision, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran.  Esfandiari is Director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.  Nafisi and Esfandiari were joined in discussion by Mahnaz Adkhami, Director of Foundation for Iranian Studies and Women's Learning Partnership (WLP).

SAIS Hosted Book Event on Shah of Iran on December 3
On Wednesday, December 3, Gholam Reza Afkhami, senior scholar at the Foundation for Iranian Studies, discussed his new book, The Life and Times of the Shah. Commentary was provided by Kenneth Pollack, director of research at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution; Vali Nasr, professor of international politics at the Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; and Azar Nafisi (moderator), director of SAIS Cultural Conversations.

Acclaimed Authors Discussed the Politics of Literature at SAIS on November 3
Azar Nafisi, director of SAIS Cultural Conversations and author of Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books; Marie Arana, book editor of The Washington Post and author of Cellophane; and Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, vice president of International PEN and author of The Dark Path to the River, discussed "Power, Politics and the Prism of Literature" at SAIS on Monday, November 3.