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Haleh Esfandiari
Haleh Esfandiari is the Director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and served as Deputy Secretary General of the Women's Organization of Iran. From 1980 to 1994 she taught Persian language, contemporary Persian literature, and courses on the women's movement in Iran at Princeton University.
Her articles and essays have appeared in The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, and The New Republic, among many others, and have also appeared in several books and essay collections. She is the author of Reconstructed Lives: Women and Iran's Islamic Revolution, editor of Iranian Women: Past, Present and Future, and co-author of Best Practices: Progressive Family Laws in Muslim Countries.
She recently completed a memoir, My Prison, My Home, based on her arrest by the Iranian security authorities in 2007, after which she spent 105 days in solitary confinement in Tehran's Evin Prison.
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