Roya Hakakian was born in 1966 in Iran. She is an Iranian-American poet, journalist and writer.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 and the Wall Street Journal. She published Assassins of the Turquoise Palace in 2011, a non-fiction account of the assassinations of Iranian opposition leaders in Berlin. Hakakian was a founding member of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Cente
...r,and serves on the board of Refugees International. Hakakian lived through the Iranian Revolution in 1979 and actively supported it along with other liberals. As the Iran-Iraq war raged, she emigrated unwillingly to the United States in May 1985 on political asylum. As a callaborator on over a dozen hours of programming for leading journalism units on network television, Roya worked on 60 Minutes, A&E's "Travels With Harry", and ABC Documentary Specials with the late Peter Jennings, Discovery and The Learning Channel. Commissioned by UNICEF, Roya directed a film, Armed and Innocent on the subject of the involvement of underage children in wars around the world was a nominee for best short documentary at several festivals around the world.
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