For two years he was Iran Country Coordinator for Amnesty International USA. Along the way he earned a doctorate in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures from UCLA.įor over a decade he was chief editor of Middle East Executive Reports, a monthly review of evolving commercial law in the Middle East. He learned Persian well and taught that language at Columbia and Georgetown Universities. He taught at Jondi Shapur University in Ahwaz, Iran, and was later Tehran Director of the American Institute of Iranian Studies.Ī linguist by training, he traveled the rural areas of western Iran recording and describing dialects previously unknown to the outside world. He served two years as volunteer, teaching English at Tehran University, then spent much of his young adulthood living and working in the region. It was the beginning of a great adventure. He attended the College of Wooster, then the Columbia School of Journalism.Īfter graduate school, to see some of the world he joined the Peace Corps and was assigned to Iran, a country of which he knew nothing. (He knows he can't be right about this.) His family later moved to Kettering, a suburb of Dayton. He was born in Middletown, Ohio, and lived his childhood there, a period he remembers as perpetual sunlight.
His work has been optioned for film and published internationally. Colin MacKinnon is an American writer and the author of widely-acclaimed novels of foreign intrigue.
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