coming up next on c-span2, we will hear from journalists and human rights activists maziar bahari who was imprisoned in iran in 2009. later a house panel investigates government health insurance co-ops. >> coverage of book fairs and festivals from across the country with nonfiction author talks, interviews and viewer collins ekman, coming up in the we will be live from the 32nd annual miami book fair, and the coverage on saturday november november 21. others include john lewis, discussing his book and a live call-in with wall street journal columnist, peggy noonan, who talks about her book, "the time of our lives." judith miller talks about her looks, "the story". and lights out, a nation unprepared, surviving the aftermath. on sunday speak with the author's life. then host joy reid will take calls about her book. barack obama, the clintons and the racial divide. join us live on c-span2 booktv starting november 21. be sure to wallow and tweet us your questions. >> after appearing on the daily show with jon stewart, journalist and activist maziar bahari was incarcerated by the iranian

to my left is maziar bahari, a journalist and filmmaker and next to him is tim greenberg, who is the executive producer of the daily show. so the first question is why are they together, and i'm glad to have tim set up something from the daily show or all of you to see so that we can move the conversation along. >> this is a clip from the series that we did on iran where we traveled there right before the election back in 2009 and the point was basically to just present this in one of the people that we wanted to interview was him. >> the islamic republic of iran, a nation in upheaval and the powder cake waiting to explode. as we empathize with these courageous souls who are risking their lives to take a stand or democracy in the face of oppression, let us not forget that these evil are evil. but just what is it that makes them so evil 2 i have not signed up for twitter, so the only way to find out what's going to for myself. and as i touch down at the airport on my 36 birthday, i was completely alone. no american and deceit, no alcohol, not even exposed anglos. >> i have a wife and

. >>> journalist maziar bahari tells his story on c-span 2. here's a brief preview. >> when i was in prison, and when i was being interrogated, my interrogator somehow became my muse, because to start with, when i got into prison, i thought i'm going to be in and out in ten days, and i'm going to write an article, "ten days in an iranian jail." and every time he would say something stupid or making a presumption about my life or about life in the west, i was saying, okay. i'll have that in my book and that in my book. so i was just trying to add color to it as i was asking my question. so basically, he did not have any other human contact besides me. because he has spent all his time in the interrogation room. he was tired of talking to his buddies, other revolutionaries. so sometimes he was confiding in me. he was telling me about his personal life. i could hear his conversations with his wife. even sometimes when he was beating me, he was talking to his wife. i remember one day he was holding my ear in his hand, and he was just twisting my e

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. >>> tomorrow night journalist maziar bahari, his memoir about being detained in an iranian prison producedse water. he has a discussion on his experience. that's tuesday night at 8:00 eastern on cspan 2. >>> all persons having business before the honorable the supreme court of the united states are admonished to draw near and give their attention. >>> coming up on cspan's landmark cases, we'll discuss brown versus the board of education for topeka kansas third grader separate but equal meant a walk to the bus that would drive her a mile to the all black school even though the all white school was only a few blocks away. her father sued the school board. it made it to the supreme court. we'll examine the case, the personal stories of the individuals involved and the immediate and long-term impact of the decision. that's coming up on the next landmark cases, live tonight at 9:00 eastern on cspan, cspan 3 and cspan radio. for background on each case while you watch order your copy of the landmark cases companion book. it's available for $8.95 plus shipping at cspan.org/landmarkcases. >>> next