Haleh Esfandiari (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Haleh Esfandiari (Persian: ) (b. March 3, 1940) is an Iranian American academic and the Director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. Her areas of expertise include Middle Eastern women's issues, contemporary Iranian intellectual currents and politics, and democratic developments in the Middle East. In 2007 she was detained, in solitary confinement, in Iran's Evin Prison for more than 110days, between May 8 and August 21.