.:. Melody Moezzi, author of War on Error .:.

WAR ON ERROR
Real Stories of American Muslims
by Melody Moezzi

In this insightful and provocative book, Melody Moezzi
explores a rarely seen side of Islam. The individual
Muslim Americans around whom her book revolves reveal
a more personal, less sensational, and most importantly,
more realistic portrait of the faith and its practitioners.

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AWARDS

Winner
2007 Georgia Author of the Year Award for Creative Nonfiction, Essay

Honorable Mention
2008 Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights book awards

CULTURE & RELIGION

The Washington Post (June 2009)
Islam, Iranian Style

Muslim Girl (Jan/Feb 2008)
American Ummah

Dissident Voice (12/2007)
Delusions of Liberation

Muslim Girl (Nov/Dec 2007)
Muslim Girl of the Month

Urban Mozaik (12/2006)
Naive, Overeducated, and Unemployed... in a Post-9/11 World

Parabola (Winter 2005)
Coming Clean (pdf)

WORLD AFFAIRS & FOREIGN POLICY

The Huffington Post (7/2009)
Get to the Doctor, Dr. Ahmadinejad!

The Huffington Post (6/2009)
Khamenei's Obsession with the Mahdi

The Huffington Post (6/2009)
Shirin Ebadi for President

The Huffington Post (6/2009)
The New Iranian Political Party

NPR (6/2009)
Rocking the Vote Not Easy for Iranian-Americans

The Huffington Post (5/2009)
The Debris of Dual Containment (with Luis Carlos Montalvan)

American Chronicle (12/2007)
Pleas of a Predator: Will the US Ever Stop Pushing for Still More Sanctions on Iran?

Dissident Voice (10/2006)
Beware of Those Who Come Bearing "Respect

TELEVISION

CNN Newsroom with Don Lemon (6/2009)
DO NOT BE AFRAID! YA NEDA!

CNN Newsroom with Fredricka Whitfield (6/2009)
Iran Election Fallout Continues (transcript)

RADIO COMMENTARY

GPB's Georgia Gazette (6/2009)
Toward Secular Democracy in Iran (mp3)

GPB's Georgia Gazette (12/2008)
Headgear and Courthouse Fear (mp3)

NPR's All Things Considered (1/2008)
Remembering Ms. Willie Knight

RADIO INTERVIEWS

The Mike O'Meara Show (6/2009)
Interview on Iran (mp3)

Montel Across America on Air America (6/2009)
Interview on Iran (mp3)

BBC World Service (3/2009)
Interview (mp3)
(entire Heart and Soul episode here)

Dominick Brady (1/2009)
Analogue Atlanta #016: Soul Speak

Laura Ingraham Show (8/2008)
At the Democratic National Convention (mp3)

WRFG, Atlanta GA (7/2008)
Just Peace Part 1 (mp3)
Just Peace Part 2 (mp3)
Hooping for Peace (mp3)

KWMR, Marin CA (1/2008)
Sufi Radio (mp3)

Radio Sandy Springs, GA (4/2008)
Following Your Passions

PUBLIC HEALTH

NPR's You Must Read This (4/2009)
"Unquiet Mind" Reveals Bipolar Disorder's Complexity

American Chronicle (8/2008)
Earth to Calvin: Get with the Program!

American Chronicle (10/2006)
Sovling America's Growing Obesity Epidemic

Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine (11/2002)
Half a Pancreas Later, Some Things are Still Hard to Digest

MEDIA COVERAGE

RESPECT Magazine (1/2009)
Twelve Profiles that Break the Cliches (i n French)

Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Association (Fall 2008)
War on Error book review (pdf)

The Nation / WireTap Magazine (7/2008)
Who are the Muslims in our midst?

Creative Loafing (6/2008)
Melody Moezzi Wins Georgia Author of the Year Award

Emory Magazine (Spring 2008)
Alumni Ink

Atlanta Magazine (3/2008)
Q&A with Melody Moezzi

Atlanta Journal-Constitution (1/2008)
Stereotype-defying young Muslims make writer's point (pdf)

Denver Westword (1/2008)
Preconceived Notions

Payam Magazine (1/2008)
Excerpt and Q&A

ABA Journal (1/2008)
Law Grad Writes Book on Fellow Muslims

One Nation (12/2007)
New book explores diversity of American Muslim Population

Dayton Daily News (11/2007)
Centerville grad writes about Muslims

Publisher's Weekly (10/2007)
Humanizing Islam (pdf)

Bookmark (ongoing)
The University of Arkansas Press Blog

LAW

ABA's Student Lawyer (3/2008)
Prepare Yourself for the Bar Exam

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