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Afshin Molavi is a Fellow at the New America Foundation and the author of
"Persian Pilgrimages: Journeys Across Iran" (Norton, 2002), which was
nominated for the Thomas Cook literary travel book of the year and described
by Foreign Affairs as "a brilliant tableau of today's Iran." A former
Dubai-based correspondent for the Reuters news agency and a regular
contributor to The Washington Post from Iran, Mr. Molavi has covered the
Middle East and Washington for a wide range of international publications.
His articles and op-eds have appeared in The New York Times, Foreign
Affairs, The Financial Times, Smithsonian, National Geographic,
BusinessWeek, The New Republic, Foreign Policy, The Christian Science
Monitor, The Nation, the Journal of Commerce, and The Wilson Quarterly,
among other publications. He comments regularly on Iran and the Middle East
on CNN, the BBC, National Public Radio, and other broadcast outlets. Born in
Iran, but raised and educated in the West, Mr. Molavi holds a master's
degree in Middle East history and international economics from the Johns
Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.
He has also worked at the International Finance Corporation, the
private-sector development arm of the World Bank.