Davar Ardalan - Human Rights Reforms in Iran

	Duration: 05:17 minutes Upload Time: 07-01-24 12:34:43 User: ForaTv :::: Favorites
Description: Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=570 Iranian-American journalist Davar Ardalan discusses the current state of human rights reform in Iran. ----- Davar Ardalan tells her story of love, rejection, and revolution in "My Name is Iran," tracing her personal journey as well as Iran's struggle for a lawful society. A love affair with an Iranian physician took Davar's American grandmother from New York to Iran in 1931. Ardalan herself was born in America and named Iran, after her parents' homeland for which they longed. In 1964, she moved from San Francisco to Solomon's Mosque in a rural part of the country with her Iranian American parents, who barely spoke Farsi. Then her parent's sudden divorce and the cataclysmic events surrounding the 1979 Iranian revolution shattered everything Ardalan had come to hold dear. Once again in the states, she chose to move back to an Islamic Iran. When she arrived, she discovered a world she hardly recognized, and one which demands a near-complete renunciation of the freedoms she experienced in the West. "My Name is Iran" reveals a complicated journey - from a fragile American teenager, to a young bride in the Ayatollah's revolution, to a newscaster in the Islamic Republic, to single motherhood in the US, and finally to a successful NPR producer - and is a remarkable story of a search for self-identity and expression. -- Cody's Books Davar Ardalan is an award-winning producer for NPR’s Morning Edition. In a three-part Morning Edition series produced with American RadioWorks that aired in February 2004, she traced her personal journey as well as Iran’s struggle for a lawful society, twenty-five years after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
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KZKZ ::: Favorites Excellent video. 07-03-17 04:15:06 _____________________________________________________
304wrb ::: Favorites great video, thanks posting it, very interesting. 07-05-24 17:37:43 _____________________________________________________
ArashIrani ::: Favorites Beautifully said, well-done Davar. There must be clear distinguish between the genuine oppositions in Iran and those secular fascist oppositions whose political views are dictated by US. Iranians will resist the clerical regime onslaught on their civil liberty and their freedom, without any help from the renegades, remnants of the old regime and surrogates of US. 07-07-06 08:33:17 _____________________________________________________
Ryguy1450 ::: Favorites I am a first generation American, My father came before the revolution and growing up in the chicago land area, i was ashamed. I didn't know why but I did know that Iran was synonomous with violence. Now, I am 23 and I realize that I should be proud of my heritage and proud of my family. Remaining silent hasn't helped, maybe if I show my community that Iranians are as likeable as anyone. 07-07-26 19:50:40 _____________________________________________________
davar22 ::: Favorites Thanks to all of my friends how watched this video. thanks. 07-08-08 10:34:10 _____________________________________________________