Davar Ardalan
                       Author & Supervisory Producer,
                          NPR News Morning Edition

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Iran Davar Ardalan is a Senior Producer with NPR News in Washington, D.C. In February 2004, her story inspired an NPR series and American RadioWorks documentary where she traced her personal journey between Iran and America against the backdrop of Iran's struggle for a lawful society.  Her career in the American media began in 1991 at the Albuquerque, New Mexico NPR affiliate.  Prior to that, at the age of nineteen, Ardalan anchored the English News on State television in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Davar Ardalan's book, My Name is Iran is a journey through the nation of Iran's volatile experiments with modernity, revolution, and Islam.  Davar Ardalan reveals a country and a family inextricably linked to one another. Threading through the internal struggles of Iran, Ardalan explores how the past has informed her own understanding of Iran and Islam.