I'm a 22 year old Iranian-American undergraduate student at Princeton University studying public policy and the Middle East. I've traveled frequently to the Middle East, and spent a year on leave from school in 2007-2008 studying and working in Iran, Turkey, and Iraqi Kurdistan. This year abroad is the subject of "Stories from Away," an online memoir I launched in September 2009, found at www.storiesfromaway.com. I speak Persian, Turkish, and a bit of Kurdish.