Lipstick Jihad
Featuring:
MEI is pleased to welcome author Azadeh Moaveni to discuss her book Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America, and American in Iran.
A former Tehran-based correspondent for Time Magazine and later the Los Angeles Times, Ms. Moaveni has reported from Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria since 1999. Her articles have focused on youth culture across the Middle East, political Shi’ism, the Iraq war, and Iran's pro-democracy movement. In the fall, she will return to Time to report on Islamic affairs.
Ms. Moaveni was born in California and is fluent in Arabic and Persian. She earned a B.A. in politics from the University of California, and she won a Fulbright fellowship to Egypt. She is currently co-writing the memoir of Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel peace laureate.
Copies of Lipstick Jihad will be available for sale after the program.
