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About Farnaz Fassihi
- Farnaz Fassihi (Persian: ????? ??????) is an award-winning Iranian-American journalist.
- She writes about Iran for the New York Times.
- Previously she was a Senior Writer for The Wall Street Journal for 17 years and a conflict reporter based in the Middle East.
- She is a 2018 recipient of an Ellis Island Medal of Honor in recognition of her "distinguished contribution" to America's society. After 14 years covering wars and uprisings in the Middle East, Fassihi returned to New York to focused on writing about diplomacy and the United Nations. Fassihi is the author of Waiting for An Ordinary Day, a memoir of her four years covering the Iraq War and witnessing the unraveling of social life for Iraqi citizens. Fassihi has won over a dozen major national journalism awards for her coverage of wars and uprisings in the Middle East and an investigative project about cyber security.
- She was a 2015 Nieman fellow at Harvard University.
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