Good evening everyone. My name is gwen im the Event Coordinator here. Im very excited to introduce you to our guest tonight. Please silence your cell phone since we are being recorded. By booktv, cspan, thank you so much for being here. Azadeh moaveni is here to discuss the book guest house for young widows. This is not her first book, shes in a fantastic writer and journalist. She is also coauthor of iran awakening abin conversation with her tonight is senior fellow and director mr. Robert mckenzie. [inaudible] these individuals are outstanding in the field and i look forward to hearing what they have to say. Please join me in welcoming. [applause] im delighted to be here. Let me start by saying i was told by the bookstore for leaving you have to buy this fantastic book. Im really delighted to be sitting next to my brilliant and very brave friend is a day who have not known since 1,998 when we both were in cairo studying arabic. I mention this because there are very few people that kn