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haleh esfandiari

haleh esfandiari -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- born march 3 , 1940 -rrb- is an iranian-american academic and the director of the middle east program at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars in washington , d.c. .
her areas of expertise include middle eastern women 's issues , contemporary iranian intellectual currents and politics , and democratic developments in the middle east .
she was detained in solitary confinement at evin prison in tehran , iran from may 8 to august 21 , 2007 , more than 110 days .
