Roya Hakakian
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Roya Hakakian (born 1966) (Persian: رویا حکاکیان ) is a Iranian-Jewish writer who, in 1984, fled with her family from Tehran to the United States, where she now works as a poet (For the Sake of Water), journalist (NPR's Weekend Edition), and documentary filmmaker (Her short film, Armed and Innocent, is about the involvement of underage children in wars around the world).
Hakakian's memoir about growing up as a Jewish teenager in post-revolutionary Iran is entitled Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran.
She is a founding member of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, and a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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