15 Facts About Hamid Mowlana

Hamid Mowlana is an Iranian-American author and academic.

Hamid Mowlana is professor emeritus of international relations in the School of International Services at American University in Washington, DC Hamid Mowlana was an advisor to the former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Hamid Mowlana's grandfather, Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Muhammad Mowlana, was a leading Islamic jurisprudent and a community leader.

Hamid Mowlana's great uncle, Haji-Mirza Hassan Roshdieh, was a founder of modern educational and teaching methods in Iran.

Hamid Mowlana is a descendant of the Iranian mystic poet, Qasim-i Anvar, and his ancestry dates back to Imam Musa al-Kazim in the early Islamic history.

Hamid Mowlana has served as a visiting professor or guest scholar in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America.

Hamid Mowlana was instrumental in establishing the first degree program in international and intercultural communication studies.

Hamid Mowlana served on the faculty of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville from 1965 to 1968 before moving to American University in Washington, DC.

In 1963 Hamid Mowlana discovered the well preserved and original copy of the first Iranian newspaper called Kaqaze Akhbar, published in Tehran in 1837, in the files of the British Museum Library in London and came a cross further evidence of the paper's existence in the files of the Royal Asiatic Society, based in London, and thus changed the beginning of Iranian journalism history to fourteen years earlier - from 1851 to 1837.

Hamid Mowlana has testified before Congressional committees on international issues.

Hamid Mowlana has worked for UNESCO in Paris and is a former president of the International Association for Media and Communication Research.

Hamid Mowlana wrote regularly for Kayhan daily, one of the main leading newspapers in Iran during the 1990s and 2000s.

Hamid Mowlana has served on the editorial board of a number of scholarly and scientific journals.

Hamid Mowlana was a contributing editor of the Journal of Communication as well as the mass media editor of Intellect of the Society for Advancement of Education.

Hamid Mowlana was the recipient of the International Studies Association's Distinguished Senior Scholar Award in International Communication at its 43rd Annual Conference held in New Orleans, Louisiana in 2002.