New York Times reporter to speak at Rice Friday

CONTACT: B.J.
Almond
PHONE: (713) 348-6770
EMAIL: balmond@rice.edu

NEW YORK TIMES REPORTER TO SPEAK AT RICE
FRIDAY
Elaine
Sciolino will discuss and sign copies of her book, “Persian Mirrors”

A look at Iran from
behind closed doors will be presented at Rice University by New York Times
reporter Elaine Sciolino Oct. 20.

“Iran is one of
America’s last enemies on earth and a country misunderstood by Americans,” said
Sciolino, who will discuss her new book, “Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of
Iran,” at 6 p.m. at Rice’s James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. She
will sign copies of her book from 7 to 7:30 p.m. To request a reservation to
Sciolino’s presentation, call (713) 348-4843.

Sciolino, a senior
writer in the Washington, D.C., bureau of The New York Times, began her
journalism career reporting for Newsweek. One of the first female foreign
correspondents assigned to the guarded, male-ruled world of the Islamic
Republic, she has covered Iran since the 1979 revolution. Sciolino was there for
the seizure of the American Embassy, the Iran-Iraq war and the riots of the
summer of 1999. She has interviewed such key Iranian leaders as Ayatollah
Khomeini and President Mohammad Khatami.

In “Persian Mirrors,”
Sciolino takes the reader into the public and private spaces of Iran