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…
Jalal Barzanji
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).