When former Newsweek writer Maziar Bahari visited Nova Southeastern University on October 18 as part of the Farquhar College of Arts and Science’s Distinguished Speaker Series, it represented a great moment in the school’s history. The Distinguished Speaker Series has been running for nearly ten years and has featured such prominent names as Archbishop Desmond […]
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Iran prison survivor to visit NSU
On June 21, Maziar Bahari was arrested by Iranian intelligence officers on six charges, primarily suspicion of being a spy for the CIA, Israel’s Mossad, Britain’s MI6, and Newsweek. He was interrogated, tortured and put in solitary confinement, within a 6-by-12-foot prison cell, for 118 days, 12 hours and 54 minutes.
DeSantis Presents “Life After Sundown”
The H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship’s Distinguished Lecture Series welcomed Carl DeSantis on Sept. 25. The sign, “Welcome Home Carl!” was hung outside the business school’s building, named after DeSantis. After almost 100 people confirmed they would attend, the event had to be relocated to the Alfred and Rose Miniaci Performing Arts […]