Roya Hakakian
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Roya Hakakian
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| Born |
Persian: رویا حکاکیان ca. 1966 Tehran, Iran |
| Occupation | Poet, Journalist, Writer |
| Language | Persian, English |
| Ethnicity | Persian Jew |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | Brooklyn College, Hunter College |
| Genre | Poetry, Non-fiction |
| Notable works |
Journey from the Land of No, Assassins of the Turquoise Palace, Persian: بخاطر آب (For the Sake of Water), Persian: نامی سزاوار نیایش (A Name to Worship) |
| Notable awards | 2004 Best Book of the Year (Publishers Weekly), 2004 Best Non-fiction Book of the Year (Elle), 2006 Latifeh Yarshater Book Award (Persian Heritage Foundation), 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship in Non-fiction |
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Journey from the Land of No, Assassins of the Turquoise Palace, Persian: بخاطر آب (For the Sake of Water),
Roya Hakakian (Persian: رویا حکاکیان); born 1966 in Tehran, 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".
Born and raised in a Persian Jewish family in Tehran, Hakakian lived through the Iranian Revolution in 1979 and actively supported it along with other liberals. As the Iran-Iraq war raged and restrictive laws became more common, she emigrated unwillingly to the United States in May 1985 on political asylum. Settling in the New York area, she studied psychology at Brooklyn College and went on to earn a Master of Social Work at Hunter College.
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