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Beneath the Veil

August 24, 2009

My television guest tonight Mary Apick, an award-winning Iranian actress from before the Iranian Revolution, is still a household name in Iran. Today she is an American actor and also a director, producer, and human rights activist.
Mary Apick’s play, Beneath the Veil, showing one night only at the Kennedy Center on October 8, explores the role of women in Islam and Islam in women’s lives.

  • How does the veil protect women?
  • How does the veil oppress women?
  • Should there be freedom to wear the veil?
  • And freedom to take it off?
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    From the “birthers” to the town hall mobs to those stocking up on guns…
    Where does right-wing anger come from?
    Is it racism or some other deep-seated fear?
    Fear of what?
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    Women’s Reproductive Freedom in the USA and Abroad

    August 17, 2009

    Women's Reproductive Freedom in the USA and Abroad

    August 17, 2009

    Guests:
    Marj Signer, President of Virginia’s National Organization for Women; Member, National Board of NOW
    Meriwether Beatty, Director of the Reproductive Health for Refugees (RHR) Project of the JSI Research & Training Institute
    Molly Fitzgerald, Technical Advisor for the Astarte Project of RHR
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    6-8:30 pm
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