Midcoast Forum on Foreign Relations

Nazila Fathi

Monday, January 9, 2012

Topic: Iran and its Supreme Leader: Two years after the Contested Election

 

Nazila Fathi reported for the New York Times for over a decade from Tehran until June 2009 when she was forced to leave the country because of direct threats her. Before that, she worked for Agence France Presse, the Time magazine, and has written for numerous publications including the New York Review of Books and Foreign Policy. She translated a book by the Noble peace prize laureate, Shirin Ebadi, called “The History and Documentation of Human Rights in Iran,” into English in 2001.She was a Nieman fellow at Harvard in 2011 and will be a Shorenstein fellow at Harvard Kennedy School of Government in 2012.