now joining us is roxana saberi.middle east, and she's here to talk about her book, "between two worlds my life and captivity in iran." roxana saberi, how long did you live in iran before you were arrested? >> i lived there about six years and i was just getting ready to leave the country when i was arrested. >> you were raised in fargo, north dakota. why did you move to tehran? >> my father is a iranian and i wanted to learn more about the culture and society. i didn't grow up speaking the farsi language because my mother was japanese and the mutual language is english so i felt the best way to learn the language would be to enlist myself and the country and i wanted to be for an news correspondent and i thought what country would be more than iran for the years to come. >> you were arrested in january, 2009 but you had been there six years and lost your passed in 2006. what kept you there? and why did you lose your pass? >> they never gave me clear reason for taking away my pass. but at the time i wanted -- i belie

roxana saberi one of them. they had some voices from the united states.so, other journalists who they do not have any voices, who are spending their times in the prison, no access to any lawyer to defend them. it is complicated story. if you want to talk about this, it is more than a book. maybe hundreds. i do not know. the situation is difficult. everything is linked to the islamic law, it is really complicated. you cannot talk directly against islam. one of the professors in iran, he is a journalist. he criticized following their -- he told, we cannot do the same 1,400 years and this we cannot do for the senior clerics. you cannot cooperate with the foreign media. i was with foreign media for 10 years. my doctor said how are you working for the united states? other journalists are in the same situation. it is difficult to say just, you can say freely any of your opinion or your idea. it is really difficult. i hope i can answer your question. >> i want to add something about your question. two things. the first is that two weeks ago, the revolutionary gu

roxana saberi one of them. they had some voices from the united states. so, other journalists who they do not have any voice but other journalists don't have any voices after spending their time in the prison, no access to any lawyer defending them. it's a complicated story. if you wanted to talk about this, you know, more than i could, more than hundreds, i don't know. but the situation is really difficult. when everything is linked to the islamic law, i think it's really complicated. you cannot talk directly against islam in iraq. one of the professors in iran, he's also a journalist. they're following their people from -- actually, we cannot do the same 1,400 years when the people at that time did for the prophet mohammed. and even we cannot do for this, as i told you one of the examples, who said, cannot access, you cannot just cooperate with the foreign media. i was with the foreign media for 10 years. my daughter said how do you know the american news agency and the older people criticize the united states. other journalists in the same situation. i

i don't want to get anybody in trouble. >> roxana saberi. pure is the book, "between two worlds my life and to the activity in iran. thank you for joining us on booktv. and that will wrap up the ten hours of live coverage of the "los angeles times" festival of books 2010 here on the campus of ucla. thank you all very much for being with us and thanks to everybody who participated and we have a lot of folks at c-span who've been working on this project and we think that as well. as you can see it is a beautiful summer day. it is midafternoon in los angeles and everything we've shown you will be free air tonight at 1 a.m. eastern time, 10 p.m. on the west coast so all five and half hours of today's coverage will be air. thanks for being with us. up next on booktv is a taped program that we take a couple of weeks ago. simon johnson, his book is quote code 13 bankers the wall street takeover and the next financial meltdown." trip is simon johnson. a former chief economist with the international monetary fund talks about the power of wall street