Hooman Majd

Hooman Majd, born 1957 in Tehran, is an IranianAmerican journalist, author, and commentator who writes on Iranian affairs. He is based in New York City and regularly travels to Iran.

Majds maternal grandfather was the Ayatollah Mohammad Kazem Assar , who was born to an Iraqi mother and an Iranian father. The Ayatollah, along with other contemporary ulema, overcame traditional opposition to serve as a professor of philosophy at the University of Tehran. His own father, whose origins were in the village of Ardakan, Iran, became representative of a middle class that was prodemocratic and promodernization.

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