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Roger Cohen and Haleh Esfandiari to Discuss Recent Upheaval in Iran

9/20/2009

The Buffett Center is bringing two eminent speakers to Northwestern this fall to provide perspective on the recent election and subsequent civil unrest in Iran.

Roger Cohen, the New York Times and International Herald Tribune columnist will give the talk A Revolution in Crisis: Iran after June 12. Cohen was on the ground in Iran during the post-election protests, providing unparalleled insight into events as they unfolded. The talk will take place on Wednesday, October 7 at 4pm, in the McCormick Tribune Center Forum, 1870 Campus Dr., in Evanston.

Haleh Esfandiari, an Iranian-American scholar, was arrested in Tehran in 2007 on false charges and incarcerated in the Evin Prison, the most notorious penitentiary in Ahmadinejad’s Iran. She will discuss her new book, My Prison, 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. The talk will take place on Thursday, November 5 at 4pm, in Hardin Hall, Rebecca Crown Center, 633 Clark St., in Evanston.