Return to Pakistan and later career He is also well-known for reading English letters and literature. Mohyeddin married Azra, his third wife, in the mid-1990s, and they have a daughter, Aaliya Mohyeddin, who was born in 2002, when Zia was over 70 years old. Azra died in 2004, at the age of 49. They met while she was still a student at the University of Denver, where he was teaching philosophy. She says their marriage was a love match and that they were devoted to each other until his death two years later from cancer at the age of 79. In addition to reading books and magazines, Zia Mohyeddin started a literary magazine called "The Spring Wind" in 1993. The magazine is published by a nonprofit organization called "The Institute of Culture and History of Iran." In 2001, Mohyeddin published a book titled "My Life with Three Women: Mother, Wife, and Daughter." The book describes his relationship with his wives and daughter. He wrote several more books after that, most about history or culture of Iran and some even winning national awards. Mohyeddin was first married to an Iranian woman named Farideh, with whom he had a son before divorcing her in 1975. Two years later, he married Azra, also an Iranian woman, with whom he had a daughter.