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{{short description|American journalist and writer}}
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{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->
| image = Azadeh Moaveni (48794412916).jpg
| caption = Moaveni in 2019
| name = Azadeh Moaveni
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1976}}
| birth_place = [[Palo Alto, California]], U.S.
| occupation = Writer, Journalist
| subject = Iran, [[Islamic State]], Middle East, politics
▲| genre = Memoir, News
| notableworks = [[Lipstick Jihad]]▼
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'''Azadeh Moaveni''' ([[Persian language|Persian]]: آزاده معاونى, born 1976) is an Iranian-American writer, journalist, and academic. She is the former director of the Gender and Conflict Program at the [[International Crisis Group]],<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-09-24|title=Azadeh Moaveni|url=https://www.crisisgroup.org/who-we-are/people/azadeh-moaveni|access-date=2022-02-01|website=Crisis Group|language=en}}</ref> and is Associate Professor of Journalism at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Institute of Journalism. She is the author of four books, including the bestselling ''[[Lipstick Jihad]]''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/azadeh-moaveni/lipstick-jihad/9781586485498/|title=Lipstick Jihad|date=2017-06-27|isbn=978-1-58648-549-8|language=en-US |last1=Moaveni |first1=Azadeh |publisher=PublicAffairs }}</ref> and ''Guest House for Young Widows'',<ref>{{Cite web|title=Guest House for Young Widows by Azadeh Moaveni: 9780399179754 {{!}} PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/553623/guest-house-for-young-widows-by-azadeh-moaveni/|access-date=2022-02-01|website=PenguinRandomhouse.com|language=en-US}}</ref> which was shortlisted for numerous prizes. She contributes to ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[The Guardian]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|title=Azadeh Moaveni |url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/azadeh-moaveni|access-date=2022-02-01|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> and ''[[London Review of Books|The London Review of Books]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Moaveni|first=Azadeh|title=Azadeh Moaveni · LRB|url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/azadeh-moaveni|access-date=2022-02-01|website=London Review of Books|language=en-GB}}</ref>
== Education ==
Moaveni was born in [[Palo Alto, California]], to Iranian parents, who left Iran before the [[Iranian Revolution|1979 revolution]]. She was educated at the [[University of California, Santa Cruz]], where she studied politics and history. At [[Oakes College]], the center of the university's History of Consciousness program, she ran programming at Bayit Elie Wiesel, and served as editor-in-chief of the university's newspaper, ''City on a Hill Press''. She received a [[Fulbright Program|Fulbright Fellowship]], and studied [[Arabic]] at the [[The American University in Cairo|American University in Cairo]].
== Career ==
Moaveni began reporting in Cairo, as a journalist for ''The Cairo Times'',{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}} 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. She first travelled to Iran as a journalist in 1999, reporting for ''Al-Ahram'' on the 1999 student uprising. She spent the next three years based in Tehran for ''Time'' magazine,<ref>{{Cite magazine|title=Azadeh Moaveni|url=https://world.time.com/contributor/azadeh-moaveni/|access-date=2022-02-01|magazine=Time}}</ref> 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]]. In May 2001, she reported on the Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon, and interviewed Hezbollah leader [[Hassan Nasrallah|Hassan Nasrullah]]. Based in New York for ''Time'', she reported on diplomacy at the [[United Nations]], and the inspections regime in Iraq.
Shortly before the [[2003 invasion of Iraq|US invasion of Iraq]], Moaveni joined the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|date=2006-06-25|title=The U.S. and Iran: Where did the love go?|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-25-op-moaveni25-story.html|access-date=2022-02-01|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> and reported the unfolding war and its aftermath for the paper. She 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 the Baghdad bureau of the ''Times'', she reported on the looting of the Baghdad museum, the political revival in Iraqi Kurdistan, and how the growing insecurity in Baghdad led to girls being kept home from school.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2003-05-26|title=Baghdad Women Shrouded in Fear|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-may-26-fg-women26-story.html|access-date=2022-02-01|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>
In 2005, 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. A bestseller translated into multiple languages, the book remains a widely read core text in university classes across disciplines from Middle East studies to journalism to gender studies. It was described by [[Michiko Kakutani]] as "[The] sense of being an outsider in two worlds may have made daily life difficult for Ms. Moaveni, but it also makes her a wonderfully acute observer, someone keenly attuned not only to the differences between American and Iranian cultures, but also to the ironies and contradictions of life today in Tehran.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Kakutani|first=Michiko|date=2005-02-25|title=As if the Mullahs Were All Young at Heart|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/25/books/as-if-the-mullahs-were-all-young-at-heart.html|access-date=2022-02-01|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
As a columnist for ''Time'', she spent the next two years living in Tehran, writing about gender issues and motherhood. She collaborated with Nobel Peace Laureate [[Shirin Ebadi]], and wrote her memoir ''Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution of Hope'', published in 2006. The book was translated into over twenty languages, and recounts Ebadi's life story as Iran's first female judge, and her support of a revolution that stripped her of that role. It charts how human rights lawyers and journalists sought to change discriminatory laws throughout the 1990s using the court of public opinion. ''[[The New York Times]]'' found it "fast-paced, suspenseful, and spare", and the ''[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]'' called it " the most important book you could read this year".
Moaveni's book ''Honeymoon in Tehran'',<ref>{{Cite web|title=Honeymoon in Tehran|url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/best_book/4031530-honeymoon-in-tehran-two-years-of-love-and-danger-in-iran|access-date=2022-02-01|website=Goodreads}}</ref> published in 2010, explores the disillusionment of a generation coming of age under the Ahmadinejad years. Through stories of meeting underground musicians, race car drivers, young radicals, and scholars, she explores "the cultural identity crisis and class frustration that pits Iran's next generation against the Islamic system". ''[[Booklist]]'' called it the "perfect blend of political commentary and social observation".
In 2014, Moaveni joined journalism faculty at [[Kingston University]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kingston University journalism lecturer Azadeh Moaveni scoops Pulitzer Prize honour for team reporting on Islamic State with the New York Times|url=https://www.kingston.ac.uk/news/article/1644/26-apr-2016-kingston-university-journalism-lecturer-azadeh-moaveni-scoops-pulitzer-prize-honour-for-team-reporting-on-islamic/|access-date=2022-02-01|publisher=Kingston University}}</ref> and taught as Senior Lecturer, while freelance reporting for ''Foreign Policy'',<ref>{{Cite web|title=Azadeh Moaveni |date=February 3, 2016 |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/author/azadeh-moaveni/|access-date=2022-02-01|website=Foreign Policy}}</ref> and ''The Financial Times''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Azadeh Moaveni |url=https://www.ft.com/stream/a0f63ca4-5d3d-4675-8edb-d5f0b97d1f1b |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221211221251/https://www.ft.com/stream/a0f63ca4-5d3d-4675-8edb-d5f0b97d1f1b |archive-date=December 11, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=2022-02-01 |website=Financial Times}}</ref>
==Works==▼
In late 2015, she published a front-page story in ''The New York Times'' on Syrian women defectors from the Islamic State<ref>{{Cite news|date=2015-11-21|title=ISIS Women and Enforcers in Syria Recount Collaboration, Anguish and Escape |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/world/middleeast/isis-wives-and-enforcers-in-syria-recount-collaboration-anguish-and-escape.html|access-date=2022-02-01 |last1=Moaveni |first1=Azadeh}}</ref> that was a finalist for a [[Pulitzer Prize|Pulitzer]] in International Reporting. The story revealed industrial-scale recruitment of women by the militant group, and emerged from research Moaveni conducted for her fourth book, ''Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of the Islamic State''. In 2018, Moaveni was named a New America Fellow.<ref>{{Cite web|publisher=[[New America (organization)|New America]]|url=https://www.newamerica.org/our-people/azadeh-moaveni/ |title=Azadeh Moaveni |access-date=December 23, 2023}}</ref>
As director of the Gender and Conflict Project at the [[International Crisis Group]], Moaveni reported and conducted field research on women's militancy and peace-building, gender dynamics of deadly conflict, and inclusive peace negotiations. Her fieldwork appeared in a 2019 documentary<ref>{{cite web|title=The Fate of Women Who Lived with Boko Haram| date=June 21, 2019 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y0t1dyRwLo|access-date=2022-02-01|via=YouTube}}</ref> about women fleeing [[Boko Haram]], which followed her and a colleague working in displacement camps in [[Maiduguri|Maiduguri, Nigeria]], speaking to women who often sought to return to the group. The following year, she travelled again to northeast Syria to report in [[Al-Hawl|Al-Hol]] and Al-Roj detention camps, speaking to women and children formerly affiliated with the Islamic State.
Her report on their plight, and the refusal of Western governments to repatriate their citizens,<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-11-18|title=Women and Children First: Repatriating the Westerners Affiliated with ISIS|url=https://www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-north-africa/eastern-mediterranean/syria/208-women-and-children-first-repatriating-westerners-affiliated-isis|access-date=2022-02-01|publisher=[[International Crisis Group]]}}</ref> has been widely cited in years of advocacy around the subject. Her piece about a lost orphan in al-Hol published in ''The New York Times'', "This Baby Is Going to Die",<ref>{{Cite news|last=Moaveni|first=Azadeh|date=2019-09-05|title=Opinion {{!}} 'I'm Going to Be Honest, This Baby Is Going to Die'|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/opinion/isis-children.html|access-date=December 23, 2023|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> led the newspaper's website for two days.
Moaveni is Associate Professor of Journalism at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, where she runs the program in Global Journalism.
* ''Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran'', PublicAffairs, 2005 {{ISBN|978-1586481933}}
* ''Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope'', Random House, 2006 {{ISBN|978-1400064700}}
* ''Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran'', Random House, 2009 {{ISBN|978-1400066452}}
* ''Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS'', Random House, 2019 {{ISBN|978-0399179754}}
== Awards ==
*2019 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, shortlist (''Guest House for Young Widows'', shortlist)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Shortlist announced for The Baillie Gifford Prize 2019 |url=https://thebailliegiffordprize.co.uk/news/shortlist-announced-baillie-gifford-prize-2019|access-date=2022-02-01|publisher=The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction}}</ref>
* Folio Rathbones Prize (shortlist)<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-02-26|title=Shortlist for Rathbones Folio Prize 2020 announced|url=https://www.rathbones.com/knowledge-and-insight/shortlist-rathbones-folio-prize-2020-announced|access-date=2022-02-01|publisher=Rathbones}}</ref>
* Orwell Prize for political writing, longlist<ref>{{Cite web|title=''Guest House For Young Widows'' longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing {{!}} News |url=https://scribepublications.co.uk/news-events/news/guest-house-for-young-widows-longlisted-for-the-orwell-prize-for-political-writing|access-date=2022-02-01|publisher=Scribe Publications}}</ref>
* ''New York Times'' Notable Book<ref>{{Cite news|last=Barnard|first=Anne|date=2019-09-10|title=Inside the Minds of the Women Who Joined ISIS|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/books/review/guest-house-for-young-widows-azadeh-moaveni.html|access-date=2022-02-01|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* Maria Grazia Catulli prize<ref>{{Cite web|last=Mazza|first=Viviana|date=2019-11-14|title=Il premio Cutuli a Azadeh Moaveni 'Racconto le promesse di Isis alle donne'|url=https://www.corriere.it/esteri/19_Novembere_14/04-esteri-maricorriere-web-sezioni-23fd34f8-0719-11ea-8c46-e24c6a436654.shtml|access-date=2022-02-01|website=Corriere della Sera|language=it}}</ref>
== See also ==
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* [[List of Iranian Americans]]
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