Friday, February 25, 2011
7:00-9:00pm
Price Center West Theater

Free and open to the public
Book Sale and Signing following the talk

Roxana Saberi is a young Iranian-American journalist with first-hand knowledge of Iranian society and events. She will give a talk at UCSD about her newly-released book, Between Two Worlds, and discuss human rights, Iran's prisoners of conscience, and the lessons she learned from her cellmates about overcoming adversity.

She moved to Iran in 2003 to work as the Iran correspondent for the U.S.-based Feature Story News. She filed reports for organizations such as NPR, BBC, ABC Radio, and Fox News, and was working on a book about Iranian society when she was arrested on January 31, 2009. She was released on May 11, 2009.

Saberi grew up in Fargo, North Dakota, the daughter of Reza Saberi, who was born in Iran, and Akiko Saberi, who is from Japan. She was chosen Miss North Dakota in 1997 and was among the top ten finalists in the Miss America Pageant in 1998. She graduated from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, with degrees in communications and French. Saberi holds her first master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University and her second master's degree in international relations from the University of Cambridge.

Co-Sponsored by...
Association of Iranian American Professionals; Burke Lectureship in Religion and Society; Critical Gender Studies; Department of Literature; Eleanor Roosevelt College; IICAS Middle East Studies Speaker Series; Program for the Study of Religion; Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture, UC Irvine; and Third World Studies

Parking: Parking officers DO CHECK weekdays until 11pm. Parking is $2/hour in the Gilman Parking Structure, closest to Price Center (about 1/4 mile away to walk over). The entrance is at Villa La Jolla Drive & Gilman Drive. Phone - Campus parking office: (858) 534-4223. Campus map: http://maps.ucsd.edu/Acrobat/MainCampus.pdf (which a black arrow in the middle showing the Gilman parking structure).

Contact: Professor Babak
Rahimi-brahimi@ucsd.edu
www.roxanasaberi.com