WWU to Host Feb. 27 Screening and Discussion of ‘To Light a Candle,’ Documentary About Religious Oppression in Iran

Western Washington University will host a screening and panel discussion of Maziar Bahari’s “To Light a Candle,” a new documentary about the criminalization of higher education for Iran’s Baha’i minority, at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 27 in Communications Facility 120 on Western’s campus.

The screening and panel discussion are free and open to the public.

Barbara Rofkar, an instructor in International Studies at Western, will moderate the panel, which will include Michael Karlberg, chair of Western’s Communications Studies Dept., and a scholar of Iran’s persecution of the Baha’i; and at least one expatriate member of Iran’s Baha’i community.

For more information on the event, contact Michael Karlberg at (360) 650-7367 or michael.karlberg@wwu.edu.