Homa Hoodfar, a professor of anthropology at Concordia University, spent many months in prison in her home country, Iran, for promoting democracy and gender equality. She and Metta talk with Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, another Iranian-Canadian professor (History, U of Toronto) about the brutal crackdown on the current resistance and their political suggestions for the future of the Middle East.

https://youtu.be/ecIwhQBQ1k8    Dec. 16, 2019

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