A panel discussion with Daniel Mendelsohn, Azar Nafisi and Samantha Power, moderated by Jacki Lyden. Co-sponsored by The Dialogue Project at The School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.

Azar Nafisi is a Visiting Professor and the director of the SAIS Dialogue Project at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC. She is the author of the national bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, which has been translated into 32 languages. She has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Guardian, and The New Republic. Nafisi is currently working on two books, one tentatively titled The Republic of the Imagination, and the memoir, Things I Have Been Silent About. She lives in Washington, DC.

Daniel Mendelsohn is the author of the nonfiction books The Lost: Search for Six of Six Million, awarded a National Book Critics’ Circle Award, and The National Jewish Book Award, among other awards; and The Elusive Embrace, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. An award-winning author, journalist, and critic, Mendelsohn is currently the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard College.

Samantha Power is The Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy. Her book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction, the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award for general nonfiction, and the Council on Foreign Relations’ Arthur Ross Prize for the best book in U.S. foreign policy. Power’s New Yorker article on the horrors in Darfur, Sudan won the 2005 National Magazine Award for best reporting.

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