Wednesday, April 21, 6:30 p.m.

Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran  BUY NOW

Cubberley Theatre, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto
 

On the morning of January 31, 2009, Roxana Saberi, a journalist working in Iran, was dragged from her home and secretly arrested. The intelligence agents who captured her accused her of espionage - a charge she denied. For eleven days, Saberi was cut off from the outside world, forbidden even a phone call. For weeks, neither her family, friends, nor colleagues had any knowledge of her whereabouts. After a sham trial that made headlines around the world, the 32-year-old reporter was sentenced to eight years in Iran's notorious Evin prison. But following broad-based international pressure, she was released on appeal on May 11, 2009. Now, Saberi breaks her silence to share the full story of her ordeal.

Saberi writes movingly of her imprisonment, her trial, her ultimate release, and the faith that helped her through it. Between Two Worlds is also a deeply revealing account of this complex nation and the six years Saberi lived there. A citizen of both the United States and Iran, Saberi sheds new light on the Iranian regime's inner political workings and the restrictions to basic freedoms that have intensified since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's victory in 2005.

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