Hooman Majd
Hooman Majd
Hooman Majd, born 1957 in Tehran, is an Iranian-American journalist, author, and commentator who writes on Iranian affairs. He is based in New York City and regularly travels to Iran...
NationalityIranian
ProfessionJournalist
attitude media iran
Nima Shirazi's is an important progressive voice in the Iran debate in the West, often deconstructing the myths (and sometimes propaganda) we commonly encounter in the mainstream media. With succinct and elegant prose, and with no axe to grind, he exposes the hypocrisy of Western attitudes toward Iran.
iran years age
I was born in Iran, left at a very young age - less than a year old - and grew up and was educated in the West.
writing college fiction
This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard to make a living as a writer. At that point, I was more interested in fiction writing.
islamic issues ramadan
It's a tradition in Islamic society to issue pardons at the end of Ramadan.
iran people iranian
There's a lack of knowledge about Iran and the Iranian people.
hurt stupid play
The wrong Democratic reaction to a stupid Republican utterance is to play hurt.
taken escaping paris
He had undoubtedly not availed himself of the ministry archives, archives that might have revealed to him that Iranian diplomats in Paris, from this, his own Foreign Ministry, had taken it upon themselves to issue Iranian passports to Jews escaping the very Holocaust they were aware of, but that he now denied.
believe mean america
I mean, we do believe in due process in America. I thought we did.
country attitude thinking
I think there is an American attitude that is very hard to break which is "We're great. Who wouldn't want to be like us? Who wouldn't want to have the benefits of our largesse, handing out aid and having American companies based in their countries?" and "our culture is great," and all that. It's hard for us to imagine ourselves as not being the greatest country on earth.
country islamic turkeys
Turkey is viewed as a very modern country and a great place to go and visit and yet Islamic as well. Iran is in some ways like that ... with the difference that Iran is probably more influential than Turkey.
country turkeys iran
Iran is a huge country and much, much more sophisticated than most people imagine ... It certainly has the potential to be at least the way Turkey is to most Americans.