Thanks to Farzaneh Katouzi.
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My precious Hourmazd and Siavash, for wily humor and productive needling. Most of all, Nader Nezam-mafi, my home across time and space—with love and gratitude for everything.
BY AZADEH MOAVENI
Guest House for Young Widows
Iran Awakening (with Shirin Ebadi)
Honeymoon in Tehran
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
AZADEH MOAVENI is a journalist, writer, and academic who has been covering the Middle East for two decades. She started reporting in Cairo in 1999 while on a Fulbright fellowship to the American University in Cairo. For the next several years she reported from throughout the region as Middle East correspondent for Time magazine, based in Tehran but covering Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Iraq. She is the author of Lipstick Jihad and Honeymoon in Tehran, and co-author, with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, of Iran Awakening. In November 2015, she published a front-page article on ISIS women defectors in The New York Times that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist as part of the Times’ ISIS coverage. Her writing appears in The Guardian, The New York Times, and the London Review of Books. She teaches journalism at New York University in London and is now senior gender analyst at the International Crisis Group.
azadehmoaveni.com
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