Saved By Beauty in Iran
July 20, 2011 Wednesday AT 3PM CT

 
 

What happens when, in 2009, a British-American poet fulfills his lifelong dream of exploring Persia's literary tradition firsthand? Iran's spectacular living culture and the depth of its soul is set into relief by his eventual detention and interrogation by Iranian security.



Guest
  • Roger Housden, Poet, author of Sacred America: The Emerging Spirit of the People, Travels Through Sacred India, and Saved by Beauty: Adventures of an American Romantic in Iran
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