Nafiseh Kohnavard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Nafiseh Kohnavard

Date of Birth: 05-Jan-1978

Place of Birth: Urmia, West Azarbaijan Province, Iran

Profession: journalist

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Nafiseh Kohnavard (Persian: ????? ???????; is an Iran born British-Iranian bilingual BBC correspondent who has covered various dangerous Middle East conflicts for BBC World Service/ BBC Persian. Kohnavard has covered allied air strikes on Islamic State, the siege of Sinjar, Iraq where the terrorist group massacred thousands of people from the Yazidi religious minority, and the battle between Islamic State and the Kurdish Peshmerga for Kobane in Syria.
She is the only journalist who had flown on Iraqi combat helicopters above Mosul and Fallujah during the operation against ISIS.
She has been based in Turkey, Lebanon,Iraq as well as the UK and spent most of her time for some years on the front lines against Islamic state militants with the Kurdish Peshmarga, Iraqi, US army forces. She was sacked by hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from Hamshahri newspaper after she asked outgoing president Khatami a few questions in her interview about the "parallel Intelligence services" and Kayhan published articles accusing her of being a spy.Kohnavard's work has included human interest stories of people affected by conflicts.