Camelia entekhabifard biography
Camelia entekhabifard biography
Camelia Entekhabifard - Seven Stories Press.
Entekhabifard, Camelia 1973-
PERSONAL:
Born 1973, in Tehran, Iran.
ADDRESSES:
Home—New York, NY.
CAREER:
Journalist.
Writer for Iranian reformist newspapers, including Zan, for six years; imprisoned for her journalistic activities for three months in 1999; granted political asylum in United States, 2000; reporter for Associated Press, Reuters, and Eurasia Net.
WRITINGS:
Camelia: Save Yourself by Telling the Truth—A Memoir of Iran, translated by George Murer, Seven Stories Press (New York, NY), 2007.
Contributor to periodicals, including Village Voice and Mother Jones.
SIDELIGHTS:
Camelia Entekhabifard, an Iranian-born journalist, is the author of the critically acclaimed work Camelia: Save Yourself by Telling the Truth—A Memoir of Iran, described as "a haunting document of repression" by a contributor in California Bookwatch. Entekhabifard opens her work in 1979, when Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi fled the country following months of protests against his regim