Azadeh Moaveni

Azadeh Moaveni is a journalist, writer and academic, whose has reported from across the Middle East, Europe, and East and West Africa for over two decades. Her work explores how women and girls are impacted by political instability and conflict, as well as the interplay between militarism, Islamism and women’s social status and rights. Throughout the 2000s she covered the Middle East as a correspondent for TIME and the Los Angeles Times. A Pulitzer finalist, she is the author of Lipstick Jihad, Honeymoon in Tehran, and co-author, with Iranian Nobel Peace Laurate Shirin Ebadi, of Iran Awakening. Her last book, Guest House For Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS, was short-listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize, the Folio Rathbone Prize, and long-listed for the Orwell Prize in Political Writing. She writes frequently for the London Review of Books and The New York Times. She is Associate Professor of Journalism at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Institute of Journalism, where she directs the program in Global Journalism.