Azadeh Moaveni
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Azadeh Moaveni | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Writer, journalist |
| Nationality | Iranian-American |
| Genre | Memoir |
| Subject | Iran |
| Website | |
| http://www.azadeh.info | |
Azadeh Moaveni (Persian: آزاده معاونى, born 1976 in Palo Alto, California) is an Iranian-American journalist and writer.
Education
Moaveni grew up in San Jose, California, and studied politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She won a Fulbright Fellowship to Egypt, and studied Arabic at the American University in Cairo.
Career
For three years, Azadeh Moaveni worked across the Middle East as a reporter for Time Magazine, before joining the Los Angeles Times to cover the war in Iraq. On February 4, 2005 Azadeh released her first book, a memoir entitled Lipstick Jihad, which details her time in Iran and the quest to discover more about her cultural identity. She co-authored Iran Awakening with Shirin Ebadi. She is married and lives in London with her husband and son, and reports on Iran and the Middle East for Time Magazine. She is currently working with editor David Ebershoff on a new memoir, Honeymoon in Tehran, for Random House. It will be published in February, 2009.
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