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Davar Ardalan, My Name is Iran
"My Name is Iran"
Davar Ardalan's first name is Iran, and in many ways her life has mirrored the nation of Iran's volatile experiments with modernity, revolution, and Islam. Drawing on a rich history informed by her father's love of architecture, her mother's historical and religious scholarship, and a family saga that sweeps back and forth between East and West, tradition and modernity, sacred and secular, NPR Producer Davar Ardalan reveals a country and a family inextricably linked to one another. Threading through the internal struggles of Iran, Ardalan explores how the past has informed her own understanding of Iran and Islam.
Davar Ardalan is a Senior Producer with NPR News in Washington, D.C. In February 2004, her full name Iran Davar Ardalan, inspired an NPR series and American RadioWorks documentary where she traced her personal journey between Iran and America against the backdrop of Iran's struggle for a lawful society. Her career in the American media began in 1991 at the Albuquerque, New Mexico NPR affiliate. Prior to that, at the age of nineteen, Ardalan anchored the English News on State television in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
For more on Davar Ardalan, visit her website.
NPR story on Ardalan's new book, click here.
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