Nazila Fathi, author of “The Lonely War: One Woman’s Account of the Struggle for Modern Iran” will be at the Cafe for a book discussion and signing.

Nazila Fathi worked for two decades as an Iranian correspondent for The New York Times before being forced to flee the country in 2009 at the height of the Green Revolution. Currently a writer for NPR and Foreign Policy, she was an associate at Harvard University’s Belfer Center at the Kennedy School of Government and has held fellowships at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center for Press and Politics, Harvard’s Nieman Foundation, and Lund University in Sweden. A frequent guest on BBC, CNN, NPR, and Fox News, she has also written for The New York Review of Books, Time, CNN.com, Agence France-Presse, Harvard’s Nieman Reports, and the online news outlets openDemocracy and GlobalPost.