Azadeh moaveni biography of williams

American journalist and writer

Azadeh Moaveni (Persian: آزاده معاونى, born ) is an Iranian-American writer, journalist, and academic. She is the former director of the Gender and Conflict Program at the International Crisis Group,^[1] 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^[2] and Guest House for Young Widows,^[3] which was shortlisted for numerous prizes. She contributes to The New York Times, The Guardian,^[4] and The London Review of Books.^[5]

Education

Moaveni was born in Palo Alto, California, to Iranian parents, who left Iran before the 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 Bayi