Tehran Correspondent, TIME Magazine; Author
A poignant love story and historical account, Azadeh Moaveni’s Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran captures the dynamic persona of this country’s people. Originally sent to cover the rise to power of President Ahmadinejad in 2005, Moaveni also explored the less prominent side of Iranian culture. This society was full of underground performers, young revolutionists and intellectuals who illustrated the frustrated identity and socio-economic struggles within this Islamic fundamentalist environment. During her journey, Moaveni, herself an Iranian-American, met and married an Iranian man, which led her to a deeper immersion and awareness of another side of Persian culture. As anti-Western sentiments grew within the national government, Moaveni found herself threatened by a movement against journalists and decided that the safest place for her family might lie outside the borders of Iran.
As the Tehran Correspondent for TIME magazine, Moaveni has been working continuously in Iran since the onset of her research nearly a decade ago - one of the few American journalists permitted to do so. Prior to working with TIME, Moaveni was a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, where she covered the Iraq War and its regional reverberations. She has gained much experience in Middle Eastern affairs through her reporting in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, Qatar and Iran, and she is fluent in Farsi and Arabic. Moaveni is also the author of Lipstick Jihad and the co-author of Iran Awakening.
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