without any further ado, please join me in about coming hamid dabasi. [applause] [applause] >> thank you. good evening, everyone. before i start up like to apologize for having to-out immediately after my short remarks because of some scheduling conflict. i have had to calm myself. i actually have to be in asia tonight where we are celebrating a cinema of to fantastic, it just sentenced to six years in jail for making films. we are both celebrating their cinema. hopefully it will be an occasion to shed light and other lesser-known political prisoners and labor yen activists and student activists, women's rights activists and so forth. so i do apologize. i am absolutely delighted my good friend and colleagues, comrade, danny postel, and ervand abrahamian, the coeditors of this brilliant and pioneering book in which i am honored to been included by their gracious attention to my work. it is published. not only had died in to what has happened over the last year-and-a-half, but also as a historical document of people who are concerned with the mess in a ru