Azadeh Moaveni

From The Human Rights Project

Azadeh Moaveni is an American journalist who grew up in San Jose, California, and studied politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She won a Fulbright Fellowship to Egypt, and studied Arabic at the American University in Cairo. For three years she worked across the Middle East as a reporter for Time Magazine, before joining the Los Angeles Times to cover the war in Iraq. She is currently living in Beirut, and on February 4th, 2005 Azadeh released her first novel entitled Lipstick Jihad, detailing her time in Iran and the quest to discover more about her social identity.