Dorothy Parvaz Released

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Anchor Marco Werman speaks with the Fred Parvaz, father of Dorothy Parvaz, the Al-Jazeera journalist who was released Wednesday from detention in Tehran’s Evin prison. She was sent to Iran in April from Syria where she had tried to enter to report on the protests. Download MP3

More from Iranian-American author Haleh Esfandiari

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Jeb Sharp interviewed Esfandiari earlier this week about her experience in Evin Prison in Iran in 2007. You can hear a much longer version of that interview on this week’s history podcast. Esfandiari’s new memoir is called My Prison, My Home. In it she deftly weaves the story of her interrogation and imprisonment into the larger narrative of the history of U.S.-Iranian relations. Download MP3

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Wind Power in the Antarctic, OR318, Sherlock Holmes Lives!, and The Photographer

This week, putting wind power to work in the Antarctic. Also, an online movement is created after an Iranian blogger dies in prison. Then, take a break from tech with Sherlock Holmes, and a new graphic novel about a French photographer’s journey into war-torn Afghanistan. Listen