AZADEH MOAVENI is the author of The East Wing: Power, Intrigue, and the Untold Story of America’s First Ladies (St. Martin’s Press). A Pulitzer finalist, he is also the author of Lipstick Jihad, Honeymoon in Tehran, and Guest House for Young Widows, which was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and Rathbones Folio Prize, and longlisted for the Orwell Prize in Political Writing. Her writing appears regularly in The London Review of Books, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. She has spent more than two decades traveling the world, covering women’s movements across three continents and the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Ukraine, and writing extensively about gender and women’s quest for political leadership. She has served as a correspondent for Time magazine and the Los Angeles Times, as a fellow at the New America Foundation, and as the director of the gender and conflict program at the International Crisis Group, where her work examined how women exercise political influence behind the scenes. She is an associate professor of journalism at New York University, where she directs the global journalism program.
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