The Women of Iran Have Risen Up: Should You Care?

"The Women of Iran Have Risen Up: Should You Care?" lecture by Roya Hakakian, Iranian American Jewish journalist and public speaker, Tuesday, April 18, at 4:30, King 106. Ms Hakakian is the author of several books, including an acclaimed memoir in English called Journey from the Land of No, and two collections of poems in Persian.  Her opinion columns, essays and book reviews appear in leading English language publications including the New York Times, New York Review of Books and The Atlantic.
Deeply influenced by both the longstanding literary traditions of her birth country and its historical turmoils, Hakakian often draws her inspirations from highly political subjects and treats them with lyricism. She takes on the most pressing and difficult contemporary sociopolitical issues —exile, persecution, censorship— and injects them with relevance and urgency through her deeply observant and poetic sensibility to make these subjects accessible to all readers.

Sponsored by JD Lewis Memorial Lectureship Fund and the departments of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, History and Sociology