President Trump threatened possible military action against Iran as protesters there broke out over the country's worsening ...

It is based on a testimony about Iran Hakakian delivered to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee in September. She was introduced by outgoing Sen. Rob Portman. Freelance cartoonist Pujan Roka ...

Imagine searching for “traces of Americanness” as an immigrant first arriving in the US, and four name tags seen in the airport stop you in your tracks. This was true for author Roya Hakakian, who was ...

Arrival can happen in more ways than one, said Iranian-American writer Roya Hakakian. Hakakian first arrived in the United States as a refugee in 1985. Some years later, she arrived in this country a ...

Roya Hakakian is a public scholar at the Moynihan Center at City College, CUNY. She's the author of several books, including Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran. Trump ...

To understand the nature of the women’s rights movement in Iran, one need not look further than the movement’s slogan, “Women, Life, Liberty,” according to Roya Hakakian. “I hope in this, you can hear ...

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The United States, along with five other world powers, has signed an agreement with Iran over its controversial nuclear program. What do Iranian expatriates in America think of the deal, which would ...

On September 17, 1992, a political assassination took place in a Greek restaurant in Berlin. Dr. Sadegh Sharafkandi, chairman of a Kurdish political party in Iran, two of his aides and an exiled ...

Imagine searching for “traces of Americanness” as an immigrant first arriving in the US, and four name tags seen in the airport stop you in your tracks. This was true for author Roya Hakakian, who was ...