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Azadeh Moaveni
Azadeh Moaveni grew up in San Jose 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. For three years she worked across the Middle East as a reporter for Time Magazine, before joining... show more

Azadeh Moaveni grew up in San Jose 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. For three years she worked across the Middle East as a reporter for Time Magazine, before joining the Los Angeles Times to cover the Iraq war. She is the co-writer of Iranian Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's memoir, Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope (Random House: May 2006). She is now a contributing writer on Islamic affairs to Time Magazine. She lives in Tehran.
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A Reading Vocation
A Reading Vocation rated it 10 years ago
I love to travel, but I hate airplanes and fear "traveler's diarrhea." I also am risk-averse, and know that, realistically, I will probably never work up the guts to travel to the more politically dangerous areas of the world even if I could scrounge up the money and vacation time to do so. It's bec...
NinthWanderer
NinthWanderer rated it 16 years ago
Eh. The subject matter was somewhat interesting, and the prose is competent (but not sparkling), but I found the author too detached from her own life story to make this the compelling read it should have been. I suspect she wanted to write it as a work of pure journalism, but some bean counter said...
florinda3rs
florinda3rs rated it 16 years ago
Not long after I began reading Honeymoon in Tehran, I ran across a copy of Azadeh Moaveni's earlier memoir, Lipstick Jihad, in a bookstore, and bought it with no hesitation - I already knew I was going to want more of her story.Some of the memoirs by journalists that I've read have felt more like a ...
Horrorvacui000
Horrorvacui000 rated it 19 years ago
Wonderful
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