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DESCRIPTION:Three young Americans captured by Iranian forces and held in captivity for 
 two years tell their story.\n\nIn summer 2009, Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal, 
 and Sarah Shourd were hiking in Iraqi Kurdistan when they unknowingly 
 crossed into Iran and were captured by a border patrol. Accused of 
 espionage, the three Americans ultimately found themselves in Tehran’s 
 infamous Evin Prison, where they discovered that pooling their strength of 
 will and relying on each other were the only ways they could survive.\n\nIn 
 this poignant memoir, “the hikers” finally tell their side of the 
 story. They recount the deception that lured them into Iran in the first 
 place and describe the psychological torment of interrogation and solitary 
 confinement. We follow them as they make surprising alliances with their 
 fellow prisoners and even some of their captors, while their own bonds with 
 each other are tested and deepened. Told through a bold and innovative 
 interweaving of the authors’ three voices, here is a rare glimpse inside 
 Iran and a timeless portrayal of hardship and hope. \n\nShane Bauer is an 
 investigative journalist and photographer. He has reported from locations 
 such as Iraq, Sudan, Chad, Syria, Yemen, Israel/Palestine, and 
 California’s Pelican Bay supermax prison. He has written for Mother 
 Jones, The Nation, Salon, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, 
 Christian Science Monitor, and others. He has received the Hillman Prize 
 for Magazine Journalism, the John Jay/ H.F. Guggenheim Award for Criminal 
 Justice Reporting, and many other national awards. He was also a finalist 
 in the Livingston Award for journalists under 35.\n\nA graduate of 
 Berkeley's program in environmental economics and policy, Josh Fattal is an 
 activist and organizer focused on sustainable development. He has spoken at 
 universities, human rights conferences, and private events to describe the 
 experience of imprisonment in Iran.\n\nSarah Shourd is a writer, educator 
 and Contributing Editor at Solitary Watch currently based in Oakland. Sarah 
 has done international human rights work with the Zapatista indigenous 
 movement in Chiapas, Mexico; organized with women’s groups against 
 unsolved murders of sweatshop workers in Juarez, Mexico; and taught for the 
 Iraqi Student Project while living in Damascus, Syria. After her wrongful 
 imprisonment in Iran, Sarah has become an advocate for prisoners' rights, 
 focusing her writing, speaking, and theater projects on the wide-spread use 
 of prolonged solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and jails. She has 
 written for the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, CNN, and 
 Newsweek/Daily Beast, and contributes a blog to Huffington 
 Post.\n\nBerkeley Arts & Letters at First Congregational Church of Berkeley 
 (2345 Channing Way at Dana, Berkeley)\nTickets $15 ($8 students) at Brown 
 Paper Tickets in advance; $20 at the door\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/03/20/18752852.php
SUMMARY:Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer, & Josh Fattal / A Sliver of Light: 3 Americans Imprisoned in Iran
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\n2345 Channing Way at 
 Dana\nBerkeley CA 94704
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/03/20/18752852.php
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