Free Press and Free Speech in Iran




We The People Podcasts show

Summary: The National Constitution Center presents Newsweek International's Maziar Bahari and Dr. Hamid Dabashi, Professor of Iranian Studies at Columbia University, in a conversation moderated by the Philadelphia Inquirer's Trudy Rubin about the growing unrest in Iran and the future of free speech and a free press in the Islamic Republic. This program was presented in conjunction with the Philadelphia Free Library's One Book, One Philadelphia initiative, which chose Marjane Satrapi's "The Complete Persepolis," a memoir of growing up as a girl in revolutionary Iran, as the 2010 featured selection. Program recorded on 3/04/10. Questions or comments? Write: programs@constitutioncenter.org