Dr. Haleh Esfandiari is an Iranian American academic and the Director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C.
Her areas of expertise include Middle Eastern women’s issues, and democratic developments in the Middle East.
She frequently writes, lectures, and organizes symposia on these topics.
In 2007, while visiting her mother in Tehran, she was seized and interrogated for almost eight months, nearly four of them inside Tehran’s notorious Evin prison.
Iranian intelligence believed she was a central figure in an American plot to topple the Iranian government.
Join Jerry in the Multi-Purpose Room at 1:30 to learn more about Dr. Esfandiari, her life in prison and her eventual release.
