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Shirin Ebadi in conversation with Persis Karim
Presented by Peninsula Arts & Letters and Kepler's Books
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 7:30pm - DOORS OPEN at 6:30pm
Menlo-Atherton Center for Performing Arts Menlo-Atherton High School 555 Middlefield Rd. Atherton, CA 94027
SORRY - THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT1
"Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran"
Don't miss a very special evening with the first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Shirin Ebadi.
"I didn't see the note until it was directly before me. There, thumbtacked to my front door, was a message on white paper from someone who had been watching me:
If you go on as you are now, we will be forced to end your life. If you value it, stop slandering the Islamic Republic. Stop all this noise you are making outside the country. Killing you is the easiest thing we could do." --from the Prologue of Until We Are Free by Shirin Ebadi
Ebadi has inspired millions around the globe through her work as a human rights lawyer defending women and children against a brutal regime in Iran. In her new book, Until We Are Free, Ebadi describes the years of intimidations from the Islamic Republic -- wiretapping her phones, bugging her law firm, sending spies to follow her, harassing her colleagues, and arresting her sister on trumped-up charges. It shut down her lectures, fired up mobs to attack her home, seized her offices, and nailed a death threat to her front door. It was not until she received a phone call from her distraught husbandthe Iranian government set a trap for Ebadi's husband filming a staged liaison, putting him on trial, and making him denounce her on camerathat she realized what the intelligence apparatus was capable of to silence its critics.
The Iranian government would end up taking everything from Shirin Ebadiher marriage, friends, and colleagues, her home, her legal career, even her Nobel Prize but the one thing it could never steal was her spirit to fight for justice and a better future. This is the story of a woman who would never give up, no matter the risks.
Persis Karim is a professor in the Department of English & Comparative Literature at San Jose State University. She is also the founding director of Persian Studies. She is the editor of three anthologies of Iranian diaspora literature, and has written numerous articles on Iranian-American literature and culture. You can learn more about her work at www.persiskarim.com.
Tickets: $40 - Admit one - Premium seating. Includes one copy of "Until We Are Free" and priority in the signing line. SORRY - PREMIER TICKETS ARE SOLD OUT
$20 - Admit one - General seating. Ticket price does not include a copy of "Until We Are Free". SORRY - GENERAL TICKETS ARE SOLD OUT!
$10 - Student. Does not include a copy of "Until We Are Free". (Must show student ID.) SORRY - STUDENT TICKETS ARE SOLD OUT!
Books will be available for pickup and for purchase at the event.
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LocationMenlo-Atherton High School Center for Performing Arts (View)
555 Middlefield Road
Atherton, CA 94027
United States
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