The Young and Restless—Iranian Youth at the Forefront of Political and Social Change

Afshin Molavi is a journalist and writer with wide experience in the Middle East and Washington. His articles from the Middle East have appeared in the Washington Post, Reuters, Business Week, UPI, the Journal of Commerce, Middle East Policy Journal and the Globe and Mail of Canada. From 1997 to 1998, he was a Dubai-based staff correspondent for the Reuters news agency. From 1999 to 2000, he was a freelance Iran correspondent for the Washington Post and a Riyadh-based reporter for the English-language daily Arab News. Molavi is a graduate of the University of Maryland and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He has lectured on Iran at the Woodrow Wilson Center (where he was an Iran studies fellow), the Middle East Institute, Georgetown University, Columbia University, the National Defense University, and Johns Hopkins SAIS.