Josef Olmert Adjunct Professor at American University
Dr. Josef Olmert received his PhD at the London School of Economics, and is currently an Adjunct Professor at American University, Washington, DC. He has published extensively on middle east topics, and participated in peace talks between Israel and Syria.
Bahareh Hedayat is a human rights activist who has spent over six years in an Iranian prison for "insulting" Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and for "actions against national security, propagation of falsehoods, mutiny and illegal congregation." Hedayat is the longest serving female prisoner of conscience in Iran.