Roya Hakakian

On Tuesday, Iran called for more talks with the U.N. nuclear watchdog group, claiming that their current nuclear program is peaceful. However, this assurance hasn't placated Israel: according to intelligence reporters for the Associated Press, Israeli officials said that they would not warn the U.S. if they decided to attack Iran's nuclear facilities.

What is it like to watch your country go up in flames from afar, torn apart by political dissension? Roya Hakakian, an Iranian who lives in political asylum here in the United States and is the author of Journey from the Land of No, and Azar Nafisi, ...

Two émigré writers say that among the Iranian people, poets are the national heroes. But today’s Iranian artists struggle to express themselves in the face of government censorship. Reza Aslan is a religion scholar and wrote No God but God, a brief history of Islam ...

Kurt talks with Reza Aslan and Roya Hakakian about the politics of post-1979 Iran and how poetry helped fuel the Islamic Revolution.