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An Event With One of My Heroes
Masih Ailinejad (Toby Melville/Reuters)
Join me and Masih Alinejad this Wednesday. Plus: we want to hear from you!
By Bari Weiss
07.18.21
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If you ever doubt that a single person can bend history, Google the name Masih Alinejad.

Masih is a tiny woman with a spine of steel (and an amazing head of hair). She was born poor in a tiny village in northern Iran; her mother, who was married off at 14 years old, is illiterate.

Like all Iranian girls born after the revolution, Masih was forced to wea…

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press, host of the podcast Honestly, and editor-in-chief of CBS News. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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