Marie Colvin Lecture Series: Women's Uprising in Iran

100 Circle Road,Stony Brook NY 11794

16 November, 2022

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Stony Brook University will host a conversation at 6 pm November 16 to discuss the growing movement, its significance and its potential impact on the future of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The panel will include: Leili Soltani, director of Voice of America's Persian language broadcasts to Iran. Born in Tehran, she is an award-winning broadcast journalist, investigative reporter and anchor, who served for the past five years as VOA's Persian executive producer in charge of live and special programming. Roya Hakakian, poet, writer, journalist and human rights activist. Roya came to the US from Iran as a refugee. She is the author of several books, including Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran. She is a co-founder of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center and is a member of the Council for Foreign Relations. Her essays on Iran have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal. Kaveh Basmenji, writer, broadcaster and translator. He is the author of Tehran Blues: Youth Culture in Iran and editor of Afsaneh, a collection of short stories by Iranian women. He has translated many Western works of literature into Person and worked as a journalist in Iran, including for Reuters, until 2001. He regularly appears on VOA. The discussion will be moderated by Sara Valinejad Lejuez, journalism instructor and former producer with Radio Farda and Voice of America. Lejuez lived in Tehran, the capital of Iran, until she was 19. The conversation will begin with a special recorded video message by Christiane Amanpour, chief international anchor for CNN and a longtime friend and colleague of Marie Colvin, who was killed by the Syrian regime in 2012. The event is sponsored by the Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting at the School of Communication and Journalism and the Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives (DI3)