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Authors Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal, and Sarah Shourd sign and discuss
Sliver of Light: Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran
Three Americans captured by Iranian forces and held in captivity for
years reveal, for the first time, the full story of their imprisonment
and fight for freedom.
A SLIVER OF LIGHT: Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran (March 18,
2014) tells the much- anticipated truth behind the news story that had
the whole nation talking: In summer 2009, Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal, and
Sarah Shourd were hiking in Iraqi Kurdistan when they unknowingly
crossed into Iran and were captured by a border patrol. Accused of
espionage, the three Americans ultimately found themselves in Tehran?s
infamous Evin Prison, where they discovered that pooling their strength
of will and relying on each other were the only ways they could survive.
Shane Bauer is an investigative journalist and photographer. He has
reported from locations such as Iraq, Sudan, Chad, Syria, Yemen,
Israel/Palestine, and California's Pelican Bay supermax prison. He has
written for Mother Jones, The Nation, Salon, Los Angeles Times, San
Francisco Chronicle, Christian Science Monitor, and others. He has
received the Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism, the John Jay/H.F.
Guggenheim Award for Criminal Justice Reporting, and many other national
awards. He was also a finalist in the Livingston Award for journalists
under 35.
Joshua Fattal is an historian with a background in environmental
sustainability. Prior to his arrest in Iran, he taught in Asia about the
political economy of healthcare and was co-director of an environmental
education center in Oregon. Joshua has also taught nonviolent
communication, qi gong, and yoga. He currently resides in Brooklyn, New
York with his partner and child.
Sarah Shourd is a writer, educator and contributing editor at
Solitary Watch currently based in Oakland, California. Sarah has done
international human rights work with the Zapatista indigenous movement
in Chiapas, Mexico; organized with women?s groups against unsolved
murders of sweatshop workers in Juarez, Mexico and taught for the Iraqi
Student Project while living in Damascus, Syria.
