Roya Hakakian

Born In Iran, Roya Hakakian was forced to flee the country at 18. Today she is an award-winning journalist, writer, documentary film maker and poet in the US. A former producer for '60 Minutes', advisor to THE NEW YORK TIMES on Iran, her most recent film about child armies ‘Armed and Innocent’, narrated by Robert De Niro was commissioned by UNICEF. One of her two acclaimed poetry collections, FOR THE SAKE OF WATER was nominated as Poetry Book of the Year by Iran News in 1993. She is a founding member of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Centre.