Book Forum: The Color Black - Enslavement and...

In this new Book Forum episode, we’re joined by Golnar Nikpour to discuss her illuminating book The Incarcerated Modern: Prisons and Public Life in Iran. Nikpour traces the transformation of Iran from a decentralized empire with few prisoners into a modern nation-state with one o ...  Show more

In this timely and critical episode, we explore our own recent release: "How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare." We're joined by esteemed authors Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, and Ali Vaez for an in-depth discussion on the real impact o ...  Show more

Part graphic novel and part memoir, Dr. Rebecca Hall's Wake: The Hidden History of Women Led Slave Revolts is a beautiful and painful look into the erased history of Black enslaved women resisting and the difficulty of bringing it to light.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy ...  Show more

In today's housekeeping, Sam explains his digital business model. He and Yasmine Mohammed (co-host) then speak with Masih Alinejad about gender apartheid in Iran. They discuss the Iranian revolution, the hypocrisy of Western feminists, the morality police and the sig ...

A note from team Getting Curious: This episode contains descriptions of violence that are at times graphic.   Women in Iran aren’t allowed to dance, sing, or show their hair in public. But it wasn’t always this way in the country. In part two of our conversation with Moj Mahda ...  Show more

Dr Jordan B Peterson and Masih Alinejad discuss the current situation in Iran, the growing unrest as revolution beckons, and the need for support from the world stage. Alinejad recounts her personal experiences growing up in Iran, being exiled, and multiple kidnapping attempts or ...  Show more