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Roya Hakakian ( ); born 1966 in Iran ) is an Iranian-American poet, journalist and writer living in the United States. A lauded Persian poet turned television producer with programs like 60 Minutes , Hakakian became well known for her memoir, Journey from the Land of No in 2004. Her essays on Iranian issues appear in the New York Times , the Washington Post , the Wall Street Journal and on NPR. Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008, she published Assassins of the Turquoise Palace in 2011, a non-fiction account of the Mykonos restaurant assassinations of Iranian opposition leaders in Berlin. Hakakian was a founding member of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center , and serves on the board of Refugees International . Harry Kreisler 's Political Awakenings: Conversations with History highlighted Hakakian among "20 of the most important activists, academics, and journalists of our generation". The New York Times . Political Awakenings: Conversations with History .1
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Roya Hakakian (born 1966 in Iran ) is an Iranian-American writer.
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Iranian American author Roya Hakakian ( ; born 1966) is a poet, journalist and writer.Born in Iran, she came to the United States as a refugee and is now a naturalized citizen.
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Iranian American author Roya Hakakian ( ; born 1966) is an Iranian American Jewish journalist , lecturer , and writer . Born in Iran , she came to the United States as a refugee and is now a naturalized citizen. She is the author of several books, including an acclaimed memoir in English called Journey from the Land of No ( Crown ), Assassins of the Turquoise Palace ( Grove/Atlantic ), and A Beginner's Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious (Knopf).Deeply influenced by both the longstanding literary traditions of her birth country and its historical turmoils, Roya Hakakian often draws her inspirations from highly political subjects and treats them with lyricism.She takes on the most pressing and difficult contemporary sociopolitical issues —exile, persecution, censorship— and injects them with relevance and urgency through her deeply observant and poetic sensibility to make these subjects accessible to all readers.
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The opening as it stood in 2025
Iranian American author Roya Hakakian ( Persian : رویا حکاکیان ; born 1966) is an Iranian American Jewish journalist , lecturer , and writer . Born in Iran , she came to the United States as a refugee and is now a naturalized citizen. She is the author of several books, including an acclaimed memoir in English called Journey from the Land of No ( Crown ), Assassins of the Turquoise Palace ( Grove/Atlantic ), and A Beginner's Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious (Knopf). Deeply influenced by both the longstanding literary traditions of her birth country and its historical turmoils, Roya Hakakian often draws her inspirations from highly political subjects and treats them with lyricism. She takes on the most pressing and difficult contemporary sociopolitical issues —exile, persecution, censorship— and injects them with relevance and urgency through her deeply observant and poetic sensibility to make these subjects accessible to all readers.
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iranian american jewish journalist
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