We Discuss Today’s Nobel Peace Prize Winner With Azar Nafisi and Summer Lopez
The jailed Iranian women's rights activist Narges Mohammadi, is this year's recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast
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Show Notes
The jailed Iranian women's rights activist Narges Mohammadi, is this year's recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
On Today's Show:
Summer Lopez, chief program officer of Free Expression Programs at PEN America and Azar Nafisi, author of many books including Reading Lolita in Tehran and most recently Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times (Dey Street Books, 2022), discuss Mohammadi's work, and the importance, and difficulties of speaking truth to power.