Iran's Brave Leading Lady
Lila Azam Zanganeh has taught literature and cinema at Harvard University. She is a literary contributor to Le Monde and a host of other European and American publications. In 2006, she edited a collection of narrative essays on Iran. Her first book—Light of My Life, or How to Net the Incredible Happiness of an Extraordinary Writer—will be published in 2009.
Shohreh Aghdashloo shows the dark side of life for Iranian women in the explosive film The Stoning of Soraya M., and hopes to inspire a new generation of Muslim women.
Iran's Exiled Queen Speaks
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As protesters flood Iran's streets, Farah Pahlavi-the deposed empress-recalls the lessons of the 1979 uprising that led to her husband's painful exile. A conversation with The Daily Beast.
Former Iran Hostage: This Isn't a Revolution
Benjamin Sarlin is a reporter for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.
Moorhead Kennedy was taken hostage in Iran in 1979 and watched the government crumble. He tells The Daily Beast's Benjamin Sarlin about why regime change is unlikely this time around.
What I Saw at the Revolution
Porochista Khakpour was born in Tehran and raised in Los Angeles. Her debut novel Sons and Other Flammable Objects (Grove/Atlantic) is out in paperback. She is a visiting assistant professor of English at Bucknell and can be found at porochistakhakpour.com.
Thirty years after the Shah left Iran, Tehran-born novelist Porochista Khakpour recalls the Ten Days of Dawn.
Carter's One Regret
Reza Aslan, a contributor to the Daily Beast, is assistant professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside and senior fellow at the Orfalea Center on Global and International Studies at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of the bestseller No god but God and How to Win a Cosmic War.
In a revealing new interview, The Daily Beast's Reza Aslan talks to Jimmy Carter about what he would have done differently in the bungled hostage rescue of 1980-plus, the "political suicide" of condemning Israel.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
The Daily Beast is dedicated to news and commentary, culture, and entertainment. We carefully curate the web’s most essential stories and bring you original must-reads from our talented contributors.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
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