Welcome to Season 1 of Parse, the official podcast of the Elaheh Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies at the University of Toronto.

The first episode of Parse is an excerpt from Mahnaz Afkhami's launch of her new book The Other Side of Silence: A Memoir of Exile, Iran, and the Global Women’s Movement. 

Mahnaz Afkhami is a women's rights activist and the founder and president of the Women’s Learning Partnership and the Executive Director of the Foundation for Iranian Studies. Previously, between 1976 and 1978, she was the Minister of Women’s Affairs in Iran and the Secretary General of the Women’s Organization of Iran.

To watch the full talk, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe07JCuesy0