The political philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo first gained renown in his adoptive home of Canada after his wrongful imprisonment in Iran became a human-rights issue a decade or so ago. Jahanbegloo was arrested in 2006, while visiting family in Tehran, on trumped-up charges of conspiring to overthrow the state. The author of such books as Conversations with Isaiah Berlin (1991), and an alumnus of the Sorbonne and Harvard, he was held in solitary confinement for four months, an ordeal he detailed in his previous book, Time Will Say Nothing: A Philosopher Survives an Iranian Prison. Jahanbegloo is currently professor and vice dean of the law school at Jindal Global University in Delhi, and executive director of the university’s Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Peace. His newest book considers his experience ten years on, from another perspective. On Forgiveness & Revenge: Lessons from an Iranian Prison (University of Regina Press) is a wide-ranging...
Jalal Barzanji is the author of the poetry collection Trying Again to Stop Time and The Man in the Blue Pyjamas: A Prison Memoir (both University of Alberta Press).
Ramin Jahanbegloo is a political philosopher and the executive director of Jindal Global University in Delhi’s Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Peace.
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