Roya Hakakian

Writer and journalist, Roya Hakakian, works in film and print. Her reportage has been featured on network television, including CBS 60 minutes. Her opinions and essays appear in the New York Times and NPR's weekend Edition among others. She serves on the editorial board of World Affairs: A Journal of Ideas. Her poetry in Persian has been included in many anthologies, including the PEN anthology of contemporary Iranian literature. Her acclaimed memoir, Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran was one of Publisher Weekly's Best Books and Elle Magazine's Best Nonfiction in 2004. She's the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction for her recent book, Assassins of the Turquoise Palace. It was a 2011 Kirkus Review's Best and New York Times Notable Book. She's a founding member of Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, and has been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholar.