International journalist and award-winning literary translator Fred A. Reed is also a respected specialist on politics in the Middle East.
American Fugitive: The Truth About Hassan
International journalist and award-winning literary translator Fred A. Reed is also a respected specialist on politics in the Middle East. After several years as a librarian and trade union activist at the Montreal Gazette, Reed began reporting from Islamic Iran in 1984, visiting the Islamic Republic twenty-eight times since then. He has also reported extensively on Middle Eastern affairs for La Presse, CBC Radio-Canada and Le Devoir.Reed worked with documentarist Jean-Daniel Lafond on the films Salam Iran, a Persian Letter and American Fugitive.
American Fugitive: The Truth About Hassan tells the story of this wanted man, an American�known in Iran as Hassan Abdulrahman�who says: "There is life after America." Through this story of an unrepentant assassin who openly accuses �the real culprits,� another tale emerges: that of covert networks, international political manipulation, and state-sponsored violence.
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