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Roya Hakakian (Persian: رویا حکاکیان; born 1966) is an Iranian American Jewish journalist, lecturer, and writer. Born in Iran, she came to the United States as a refugee and is now a naturalized citizen.
Mar 20, 2021 · Roya Hakakian was a teenager when she came to the United States from Iran. she says she hopes her book will help native-born Americans see all the small signs of democracy...
Apr 6, 2023 · Roya Hakakian is the author, most recently, of A Beginner’s Guide to America for the Immigrant and the Curious. Roya Hakakian is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction and the...
Jul 4, 2022 · As a young woman, Jewish U.S.-Iranian author Roya Hakakian got swept up by the excitement of the revolution. During a visit to Israel she talks about Jewish life in Iran and her own personal miracle.
Roya Hakakian is a public fellow at American Jewish University and a fellow at Yale University. She is the author of several books, including Journey from the Land of No, about her childhood in Iran, and A Beginner's Guide to America, about her experience as an immigrant.
Sep 28, 2022 · “No one can predict how a revolution starts,” the Iranian American poet and author Roya Hakakian writes this week in The Atlantic. And make no mistake, she told me in an interview yesterday: The...
Jul 12, 2021 · Roya Hakakian’s straight-talking, frequently humorous memoir is about acclimating to life in America after growing up Jewish in Iran.
