2023 | Page 3 of 3 | Kourosh Ziabari

Iran risks becoming a nation bereft of its best minds

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January 23, 2023

Kourosh Ziabari – Asia Times: Iran’s talented, educated youth have consistently cultivated the nation’s public image as one characterized by vibrancy and motivation to push the boundaries. Whether mathematicians, computer scientists, anthropologists or artists, Iranians have carved out a universal reputation as hard-working and creative, even though the lion’s share of this brilliance is bearing […]

Crisis in Iran: Raisi’s hijab hype backfiring badly

By Kourosh Ziabari

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January 23, 2023

‘Sacred versus’: Iranian opposition mirrors regime’s sins

By Kourosh Ziabari

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January 23, 2023

The heinous stabbing attack against British-American novelist Salman Rushdie was so inexcusable that even the administration of hardline Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi disowned it, contending that the Islamic Republic could not be blamed for that outburst of violence against the persecuted writer.

About

Kourosh Ziabari is a journalist and media studies researcher. A contributor to Foreign Policy and New Lines Magazine, he has earned a master's degree in political journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In 2022, he was named the recipient of the Professional Excellence Award from the Foreign Press Correspondents Association. He is an alumnus of the East-West Center's Senior Journalists Seminar Fellowship and a 2022 World Press Institute fellow with the University of St. Thomas, MN. Kourosh was a finalist for three Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism in 2020, 2021 and 2022. He has covered the United Nations on a Dag Hammarskjold Fund for Journalists fellowship and received the silver medal of the Prince Albert II of Monaco and United Nations Correspondents Association Global Prize for Coverage of Climate Change. He was a Chevening Scholar of the class of 2016/17 with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.