Francesca Maria Lorenzini, Author at Francesca Maria Lorenzini

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What Iranian Dissidents Can Learn About Regime Change From the Mistakes of 1979

By Kourosh Ziabari & Francesca Maria Lorenzini

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August 7, 2026

Half a century has passed since an Iranian-American historian interrupted his studies in Los Angeles to join a revolution that he believed would reshape his country. The spirit that drove him to the streets of Tehran is now tempered by caution about how a revolution can go awry.

Caught in the Crossfire: Jordan’s Balancing Act in the Iran-Israel Conflict

By Kourosh Ziabari & Francesca Maria Lorenzini

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September 14, 2025

Ensnared in the fracas between Israel and Iran, Jordan is trying to regain its balancing act while staving off the security threats emanating from this simmering crisis, which the Trump administration has turned into a front for one of the “forever wars” he had campaigned on ending.

About

Kourosh Ziabari is a journalist and media studies researcher. A contributor to 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.