16 Facts About Azadeh Moaveni

Azadeh Moaveni is an Iranian-American writer, journalist, and academic.

Azadeh Moaveni is the former director of the Gender and Conflict Program at the International Crisis Group, and is Associate Professor of Journalism at New York University's Arthur L Carter Institute of Journalism.

Azadeh Moaveni is the author of four books, including the bestselling Lipstick Jihad and Guest House for Young Widows, which was shortlisted for numerous prizes.

Azadeh Moaveni contributes to The New York Times, The Guardian, and The London Review of Books.

Azadeh Moaveni was educated at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she studied politics and history.

Azadeh Moaveni received a Fulbright Fellowship, and studied Arabic at the American University in Cairo.

Azadeh Moaveni began reporting in Cairo, as a journalist for The Cairo Times, run by the human rights activist and editor Hisham Kassem, and later for Al-Ahram Weekly, where she worked with editor Khaled Dawoud, writing about the region and books.

Azadeh Moaveni first travelled to Iran as a journalist in 1999, reporting for Al-Ahram on the 1999 student uprising.

Azadeh Moaveni spent the next three years based in Tehran for Time magazine, first as a reporter covering youth culture and the Iranian reform movement, and then later as a correspondent around the region, covering Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Egypt.

Shortly before the US invasion of Iraq, Azadeh Moaveni joined the Los Angeles Times, and reported the unfolding war and its aftermath for the paper.

Azadeh Moaveni travelled in the convoy of Ayatollah Baqer al-Hakim from Tehran through Najaf, as the Shia Iraqi opposition in exile returned to the country after the fall of Saddam Hussein.

In 2005, Azadeh Moaveni published Lipstick Jihad, a memoir that recounted her foray through Iranian youth culture in the restless heyday of the Iranian reform movement and a vibrant women's rights movement.

Azadeh Moaveni collaborated with Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi, and wrote her memoir Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution of Hope, published in 2006.

In 2014, Azadeh Moaveni joined journalism faculty at Kingston University and taught as Senior Lecturer, while freelance reporting for Foreign Policy, and The Financial Times.

The story revealed industrial-scale recruitment of women by the militant group, and emerged from research Azadeh Moaveni conducted for her fourth book, Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of the Islamic State.

Azadeh Moaveni's fieldwork appeared in a 2019 documentary about women fleeing Boko Haram, which followed her and a colleague working in displacement camps in Maiduguri, Nigeria, speaking to women who often sought to return to the group.