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Vulture (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
Saberi after her arrival home in May. The American journalist Roxana Saberi's relatively brief imprisonment in Iran on trumped-up spying charges now looks like a preface to a new and, in the end, probably tragic chapter in the country's scarred history. Meanwhile, today's announcement of her book deal with HarperCollins, at the behest of power agent Robert Barnett, bears all the imprints of news-driven...
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Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 06/16/2009
"No one can stop these young people anymore. It is not in the hands of the government. It's not about Mousavi or Khatami or Ahmadinejad. People are taking this into their own hands." A still from Bahman Ghobadi's Nobody Knows About the Persian Cats It's been quite a year for Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi. His fiance, journalist Roxana Saberi, was arrested by Iranian authorities and charged...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009
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D-Day (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009
The vigil last night in Los Angeles for Euna Lee and Laura Ling, the two journalists detained in North Korea and put on trial today , brought over 500 people to a neighborhood restaurant in Santa Monica, featuring the Lee and Ling families, Tia Carrere, soon to be Congresswoman Judy Chu, and a number of spoken word and musical artists. CNN carried a live interview on Anderson Cooper 360 with Lisa Ling...
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D-Day (Free subscription) | 06/03/2009
While the case of Roxana Saberi stirred enough attention in the media to extract her release from Iran, the similar case of two journalists detained in North Korea since March has not been given the same level of notoreity. The Current TV journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, will stand trial for "hostile acts" against the DPRK on Thursday, and their families are speaking out after months...
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As in the days of Noah (Free subscription) | 05/29/2009
"I felt that God had abandoned me."
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PORT☆CITY☆UNDERGROUND (Free subscription) | 05/29/2009
View original here: ‘I Was Never a Spy’: Roxana Saberi’s Gives First TV Interview to Diane Sawyer
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ShoppingBlog.com (Free subscription) | 05/28/2009
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi today. Roxana Saberi was recently freed after spending 100-days in an Iranian prison. Hillary Clinton said getting Roxana home safely was a matter of great concern to the country, the Obama administration and to her personally. Hillary Clinton said, "My heart went out to Roxana and to her parents every single...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 05/27/2009
NPR News gets the first in-depth interview with Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi . Saberi, a freelance journalist who has worked for NPR, ABC, Fox News, and others, was released from an Iranian prison earlier this month. NPR host Melissa Block 's interview with Saberi will air tomorrow afternoon on All Things Considered. Saberi was released after an Iranian appeals court reduced her 8 year...
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Denver Post (Free subscription) | 05/24/2009
A film co-scripted by U.S.-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi won a prize in one of the Cannes Film Festival competitions Saturday.
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 05/15/2009
A film co-scripted by Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi and directed by her fiance, Iranian-Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi, was screened in the “Un Certain Regard” section of the Cannes Film Festival today. Saberi was released from Tehran’s Evin prison on May 11 after her eight-year prison sentence on charges of espionage was reduced to a two-year suspended [...]
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 05/14/2009
A film co-scripted by U.S.-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi premiered at the Cannes Film festival Thursday, and her partner - the film's director, Bahman Ghobadi - flew from Tehran to the French Riviera for the red-carpet premiere.
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Examiner (Free subscription) | 05/14/2009
A film co-scripted by U.S.-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi premiered at the Cannes Film festival Thursday, and her partner - the film's director, Bahman Ghobadi - flew from Tehran to the French Riviera for the red-carpet premiere.
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 05/14/2009
A film co-scripted by U.S.-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi premiered at the Cannes Film festival Thursday, and her partner - the film's director, Bahman Ghobadi - flew from Tehran to the French Riviera for the red-carpet premiere.
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