Esfandiari, Haleh

Haleh Esfandiari is a distinguished Iranian American public intellectual. The foundingdirector of the Woodrow Wilson Center s Middle East Program, she is the formerdeputy secretary general of the Women s Organization of Iran and has taught at PrincetonUniversity. She has worked in Iran as a journalist and is the author of Reconstructed Lives: Women and Iran s Islamic Revolution. She lives in Maryland with her husband, Shaul Bakhash, a professor at George Mason University.