Roya Hakakian

Roya Hakakian (born 1966 ) is an Iranian- American author.

Life and work

1984 Hakakian left Tehran with her family and went to the USA. There, now she lives as a poet ( For a sake of Water ) and journalist ( NPR's Weekend Edition ), and as a documentary filmmaker. Her short film Armed and Innocent (English Armed and Innocent ) is a film about the intricacies of child soldiers in wars around the world.

Your memories of growing up as a Jewish teenager in post-revolutionary Iran under Khomeini Ruhollah they brought out under the title Journey from the Land of No.

She is also a founding member of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center.

Works (selection)

  • Spook story. What really happened to Mossadeq? In. World affairs, vol 178 (2010), No. 2, pp. 98 ff
  • When eyes get averted. The Consequences of misplaced reporting. In: Nieman Reports, vol 63 (2009 ), No. 2, pp. 14
  • My country, my people. Translated from English by Tobias Dürr. In: Time No. 16 /2012, p 5
  • Bitter Spring. My youth in Iran the Revolution ( " Journey from the land of No "). Goldmann, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-442-15573-6.
  • Assassins of the Turquoise Palace. Grove / Atlantic, Inc., New York 2011, ISBN 978-0802119117
  • Author
  • Iranian
  • Born in 1966
  • Woman
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