Jamshid Askar

Jamshid Ghazi Askar is a staff writer for the LDS Church News. He also writes articles published in the Mormon Times and was previously a sport reporter for the Deseret News. Beganing in June 2010 Askar also began to write a blog entitled "the big lever" for the Deseret News.
Askar was born to an Iranian father and an American mother and raised in Orange County, California.

He holds a bachelors degree from the University of California, Irvine in English. Askar holds a JD from Brigham Young University (BYU). He has also worked as a reporter for the Provo Daily Herald.
Askar and his wife are the parents of two daughters with a third child due to be born in July 2010.
Askar also works as an online istructor at BYU-Idaho and a continuing education instructor at BYU.
 
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