The Freedom Chat: A Conversation with Marina Nemat

The Freedom Chat is a new video series by Sampsonia Way featuring interviews with journalists and other media workers facing censorship and repression in their home countries. In these Q&A’s, conducted via video chat, journalists talk with Sampsonia Way about press freedom, anti-free speech legislation, and exile.

For our fourth segment we talked to exiled Iranian novelist Marina Nemat. After the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, Nemat was arrested at the age of 16 and held in Evin Prison. In 1991 she left Iran and currently lives in Canada, where she published her first book Prisoner of Tehran (2007).