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...
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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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