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Conversations With History: Roya Hakakian

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Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Roya Hakakian whose book "Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran," chronicles her intellectual odyssey from teenage rebel to Iranian-American writer. In the conversation, Roya Hakakian reflects on the craft of writing, the importance of poetry in Iranian culture, the betrayal of the revolution by the Ayatollahs and the impact of the revolution on the Jewish community in Iran. She also compares the struggle within both
Islam and Judaism as young people reconcile modernity with religious identity.
Series: Conversations with History [5/2009] [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 16283]

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  • How dangerous it is that a "poet" who lives safely in the US describes today's Iranian regime as being "mature, " "confident," "less brutal," etc.

    I was going to get a book by her today, but now I changed my mind.

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