Hooman Majd was born on 1957 and is an Iranian-born American journalist, author, and political commentator who writes on Iranian affairs.
11 Facts About Hooman Majd
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Hooman Majd is based in New York City, and regularly travels to Iran.
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Hooman Majd was raised in a family involved in the diplomatic service, serving under the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
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Hooman Majd boarded at St Paul's School, London, until 1974.
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Hooman Majd studied operations research at GWU for two more years but did not complete.
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Hooman Majd stayed in the United States after the 1979 revolution.
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Hooman Majd's maternal grandfather was the Ayatollah Mohammad Kazem Assar, who was born to an Iraqi mother and an Iranian father.
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Hooman Majd's aunt is musician Shusha Guppy, and his cousin is convicted fraudster Darius Guppy.
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Hooman Majd has published short fiction in collections and in The American Scholar and Guernica.
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Hooman Majd has served as an advisor and translator for President Mohammad Khatami, and translator for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on their trips to the United States and to the United Nations, and he has written about those experiences.
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In July 2012 a tweet from Hooman Majd's Twitter account was made about Iranian-born Nazanin Afshin-Jam, a human rights advocate and the wife of Canadian Defence Minister Peter MacKay.