Masih Alinejad
Iranian-American journalist, writer and activist (born 1976) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Masih Alinejad (Persian: مسیح علینژاد, born Masoumeh Alinejad-Ghomikolayi (Persian: معصومه علینژاد قمیکُلایی), September 11, 1976[citation needed]) is an Iranian-American[4] journalist, author, and women's rights activist.[5][6] Alinejad works as a presenter/producer at Voice of America Persian News Network, a correspondent for Radio Farda, a frequent contributor for Manoto television, and a contributing editor for IranWire.[7] Alinejad focuses on criticism of the status of human rights in Iran, especially women's rights.[8] Time magazine named her among its 2023 honorees for Women of the Year.[9]
Masih Alinejad | |
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مسیح علی نژاد | |
Born | Masoumeh Alinejad-Ghomikolayi (1976-09-11) September 11, 1976 (age 47) |
Nationality | Iranian |
Citizenship | United States[1] |
Education | Oxford Brookes University |
Occupation(s) | Journalist and author |
Years active | 2001–present |
Employer | U.S. Agency for Global Media |
Spouses | |
Children | 1 |
She lives in exile in New York City, and has won several awards, including the 2015 Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy women's rights award, the Omid Journalism Award from the Mehdi Semsar Foundation, and a "Highly Commended" AIB Media Excellence Award.[10] In 2019, Alinejad sued the Iranian government in a U.S. federal court for harassment against her and her family.[11] She released a book in 2018 called The Wind in My Hair that deals with her experiences growing up in Iran, where she writes girls "are raised to keep their heads low, to be unobtrusive as possible, and to be meek".[12][13] In 2021, U.S. prosecutors charged four Iranian intelligence officials with plotting to kidnap a critic of the Iranian government; the target was not named, but Alinejad believes it was her.[14]