Shirin Joy

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010
Geneive Abdo, religion correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and co-author, Answering Only to God: The Struggle Between Religion and Democracy in Post-Revolutionary Iran (Henry Holt & Co., 2003), introduces Shirin Ebadi, this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner. And Louise Sherby, Associate Dean and Chief Librarian at Hunter College Library, and author, The Who's Who of Nobel Prize Winners 1901-2000 (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001), explains Shirin Ebadi's place in Nobel history.

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