Nazila Fathi is a journalist, translator and commentator on Iran. She reported out of Iran for nearly two decades until 2009 when she was forced to leave the country because of government threats against her. She was based in Tehran from 2001 for The New York Times until she left, during a time when she wrote over 2,000 articles for the Times. Prior to that, she wrote for Time magazine, Agence France-Presse and the Times. She translated a book, History and Documentation of Human Rights in Iran, by the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Shirin Ebadi, into English in 2001. She has written for The New York Review of Books, Foreign Policy, Nieman Reports, and the online publication, openDemocracy. Fathi has been a guest speaker on CNN, BBC, CBC, NPR, and at several academic institutions including Stanford University and Harvard University. She received her MA in political science from the University of Toronto in 2001. In 2003 she was awarded the Raoul Wallenberg Fellowship at Lund University. She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard in 2010-11. Fathi’s project at the Shorenstein Center, as part of a book on Iran, traced the influence of satellite television, the Internet and the press on Iranian civil society from 1993 to 2003.
Nazila Fathi Discusses Press Freedom on “The Takeaway”
January 22, 2016
January 22, 2016 — Nazila Fathi, spring 2012 fellow and former Tehran bureau chief for The New York Times, participates in a discussion on “The Takeaway” about how global press freedom is threatened by politics and violence, and how censorship is changing in the digital age. Listen to the episode.
