Azadeh Moaveni

For readers of Kabul Beauty School and Funny in Farsi, the unforgettable story of a young American journalist who falls in love and starts a family in Iran. Azadeh Moaveni, longtime Middle East correspondent for Time magazine, returns to Iran to cover the rise of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Living and working in Tehran, she finds a nation that openly yearns...

Guest House for Young Widows by Azadeh Moaveni is shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and has been recognised as a Guardian and Observer Book of the Year. In early 2014, the Islamic State secured its control over Raqqa in Syria. It was then that ISIS's leader, Baghdadi, called upon Muslims globally to join the caliphate. Witnessing the...