Joshua Fattal

A graduate of Berkeley's program in environmental economics and policy, Joshua Fattal is an activist and organizer focused on sustainable development. Along with co-authors Sarah Shourd and Shane Bauer, he has spoken at universities, human rights conferences, and private events to describe the experience of imprisonment in Iran. Read more about him here.


Articles by Joshua Fattal

Is History a Prison or a Home?

In 1951 my family left the region in which they had lived since Nebuchadnezzar II took a bunch of Jews ...

Remembering Hebrew School in Iranian Prison

I struggled to remember ever scrap of Judaism that I could. My family is secular. My mother feels uncomfortable in ...

Jews Don’t Celebrate Christmas (Except in Prison in the Islam Republic of Iran)

In Iranian prison I didn’t hear the anti-Semitism that I anticipated. For months, I feared revealing my religion to guards. ...