Azadeh Moaveni Biography

As far back as she can remember author and journalist Azadeh Moaveni has felt at odds with her tangled identity as an Iranian-American. In suburban America she lived in two worlds. At home she was the daughter of the Iranian exile community serving tea clinging to tradition and dreaming of Tehran. Outside she was a California girl who practiced yoga and listened to Madonna. For years she ignored the tense standoff between her two cultures. But college magnified the clash between Iran and America and after graduating she moved to Iran as a journalist.
Moaveni explored the psychologies of young people in Iran and wrote Lipstick Jihad an intimate exploration of Iran’s dynamic and overwhelmingly young population. She wanted to accurately reflect the kitsch hedonism and despair that underpinned their rebellion against the Islamic system. In 2006 she co-authored Iran Awakening the memoir of Shirin Ebadi. Recently Moaveni released Honeymoon in Tehran an account of the several unexpected turns her life took - love pregnancy and marriage - when she returned to Tehran to cover a story for Time magazine.
Moaveni who grew up in San Jose writes about Arab and Iranian youth culture Islam Iran's reform struggle and Middle East politics with a special emphasis on demographics and young people's attitudes toward the West. She studied politics at the University of California Santa Cruz won a Fulbright fellowship to Egypt and studied Arab at the American University in Cairo. Moaveni began her career in 2000 when she joined Time magazine as a Tehran and then New York-based reporter covering society and political stories across the Middle East. In 2003 Moaveni became a correspondent for The Los Angeles Times where she reported on the Iraq war political Shiism and Iran's pro-democracy student movement.

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