Roya Hakakian: “The Plight of Women in Israel and Iran, and the Silence of Feminists”

Roya Hakakian is an Iranian-American writer, journalist, and public speaker. Her opinion columns, essays, and book reviews appear in leading English language publications including The New York Times, The New York Review of Books and The Atlantic. A founding member of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, she has spoken on a variety of news outlets, from CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS to MSNBC, as well as in Washington D.C. for the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee and the State Department with U.S. Secretary Antony Blinken. Her latest book "A Beginner’s Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious" has been called a contemporary Tocquevlllian account by The Wall Street Journal and The Boston Globe.
She is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship among many other prizes and has been called one of “the most important activists, academics and journalists of her generation.”
Cosponsored by the Boston College International Studies Program, Islamic Civilization and Societies Program, and with the support of an ILA Major Grant.
0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:57 - Welcome Remarks from Natana J. DeLong-Bas
0:05:07 - Welcome Roya Hakakian
0:52:41 - Q&A
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how far are is the woke mob from the morality police

[@travelchannel304]

I've been waiting for This since the 80s. I've know when Persian women have had enough....yet til then....what to do. Here?

[@roberttelarket4934]

She may be a past resident or her family of Iran but she is Armenian a different ethnic group.

[@BobQuigley]

...and India and Mexico and South America and Mormon and radical Christians and .... Well you get the idea