Azadeh Moaveni

Azadeh Moaveni is a journalist, writer and associate professor at New YorkUniversity, where she directs the Global Journalism Program. She is the author of Lipstick Jihad and Honeymoon in Tehran, and co-author, with Iranian Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi, of Iran Awakening. Her latest book, Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS, was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize, the Rathbones Folio prize, and was a New York Times Notable Book of 2019. Guest House for Young Widows emerged out of a front-page story for the Times that was a finalistfor a group Pulitzer. She writes for the London Review of Books and the New York Times, among other publications.