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Roya Hakakian is an Iranian-American writer, journalist, and public speaker. Her opinion columns, essays, and book reviews appear in leading English language publications including <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>The New York Review of Books</i> and <i>The Atlantic</i>. A founding member of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, she has spoken on a variety of news outlets, from CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS to MSNBC, as well as in Washington D.C. for the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee and the State Department with U.S. Secretary Antony Blinken. Her latest book <i>A Beginner’s Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious </i>has been called a contemporary Tocquevlllian account by <i>The Wall Street Journal</i> and <i>The Boston Globe</i>. <br/>She is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship among many other prizes and has been called one of “the most important activists, academics and jou
Women. Life. Freedom. Those three words and the fires women are using to burn their hijab have ignited a protest across Iran, challenging the Islamic republic and the face of a nation. The Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting at the School of Communication and Journalism and the Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives will host a conversation on Wednesday, November 16, at 6 pm to discuss the growing movement, its significance and its potential impact on the future of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The panel will include: Leili Soltani, director of Voice of America's (VOA) Persian language broadcasts to Iran. Born in Tehran, she is an award-winning broadcast journalist, investigative reporter and anchor who served for the past five years as VOA's Persian executive producer in charge of live and special programming. Roya Hakakian, poet, writer, journalist and human rights activist. Roya came to the U.S. from Iran as a refugee. She is the author of
I. Roya Hakakian is an American writer from Iran who commands a distinctive ability to speak about large and horrific events in a chipper tone that appears to underplay the horrific quality and, by apparently underplaying, ends up subtly underlining. It is an artful tone. It is cagey, charming, disarming,