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Masih Alinejad
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Iranian-born journalist
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Ghomi Kola, Iran
Masih Alinejad is an Iranian-American journalist, author, and women's rights activist. Alinejad currently works as a presenter/producer at VOA Persian Service, a correspondent for Radio Farda, a frequent contributor to Manoto television, and a contributing editor to IranWire.
Known for
- Be My Voice — Herself2021
- Real Time with Bill Maher — Self2003
- 60 Minutes — Self1968
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Key facts
- Born
- Masoumeh Alinejad-Ghomikolayi , ( 1976-09-11 ) September 11, 1976 (age 49) , Qomi Kola , Babol , Imperial State of Iran
- Citizenship
- United States
- Education
- Oxford Brookes University
- Occupations
- Journalist and author
- Years active
- 2001–present
- Employer
- U.S. Agency for Global Media
- Spouses
- Max Lotfi ( divorced ) Kambiz Forouhar ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2014 )
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Iran
- Place of birth
- Qomi Kola
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- Oxford Brookes University
- Employer
- U.S. Agency for Global Media
- Languages spoken
- Persian
- Image
- Masih Alinejad (cropped).jpg
- Residence
- Brooklyn
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- date of birth
- 1976-09-11
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- Masih Alinejad
- start of work period
- 2001-00-00
- social media followers
- 5450
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Encyclopedic overview
Masoumeh "Masih" Alinejad-Ghomikolayi (Persian: معصومه علینژاد قمیکُلایی; born September 11, 1976), is an Iranian-American journalist, author, and political activist. Alinejad worked 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. Alinejad focuses on criticism of the status of human rights in Iran, especially women's rights. Time magazine named her among its 2023 honorees for Women of the Year.
Alinejad lives in exile in New York City. She 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. She released a memoir in 2018 titled 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".
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