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 Sanam Dolatshahi has been immersed in the women’s movement in Iran as an activist as well as an editor and one of Iran's first female bloggers. To her, Western media coverage of her country is largely one-sided.
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 After 40 years of studying Iran, retired foreign service officer Ambassador John Limbert -- and one time hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Iran -- now thinks that diplomats could have done a better job getting to know the country and its people. He talks about how journalists can learn from the mistakes of the past.
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 Iranian physician Kamiar Alaei has spent the last decade engaged in cultural exchange with the United States, bringing medical students to Iran and building on his successful HIV/AIDS treatment program. He speaks about sustaining the continuous stream of new ideas and potential solutions, and ways in which both the United States and Iran can benefit from each other.
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 Mehrzad Boroujerdi founded the Middle Eastern Studies Program at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He talks about the benefits of scrutinizing Iranian society and government to gain a clearer picture of how the country operates.
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 Political cartoonist Nikahang Kowsar talks about the line he and his fellow satirists have to walk to protect themselves and others while still managing to be published in Iran. He also observes the particular challenges for Western journalists trying to cover Iran as foreigners.
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 As an observer of the socioeconomic side of Iran, research scholar Kaveh Ehsani thinks there are still many more stories to be told about Iran. He points out some of the country’s internal successes that can serve as models even for “first-world” nations.
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 Babak Yektafar has been helping Iranians understand the politics and culture of the United States as editor-in-chief of the Persian-language online journal Washington Prism. He suggests U.S. foreign policy would benefit from a wider view of Iran as a complex society.
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