Farnaz fassihi biography of williams

Iranian-American journalist

Farnaz Fassihi
Born	Farnaz Fassihi Shirazi (age&#;53&#;54) United States
Citizenship	American, Iranian
Alma&#;mater	Columbia University
Occupation	Journalist

Farnaz Fassihi (Persian: فرناز فصیحی; born ) is an Iranian-American reporter who has worked for The New York Times since She is the United Nations bureau chief and also writes about Iranian news.

Previously she was a senior writer for The Wall Street Journal for 17 years and a conflict journalist based in the Middle East.

Fassihi's memoir, Waiting for An Ordinary Day, is based on her four years covering the Iraq War and witnessing the unraveling of social life for Iraqi citizens.

Early life and education

Farnaz Fassihi was born in in the United States to Iranian parents. She grew up in Tehran, Iran, and Portland, Oregon in the US.^[1]

She earned a Master of Journalism from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in Unused York City.^[1][2]

Career

Early career

Fassihi worked as an investigative reporter and roving foreign correspondent for The Star-Ledger of Newark, New Jersey.^[2] She covered the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, the war in Afghanistan, Second Palestinian Intifada and Iraq under Saddam Hussein for The Star-Ledger.

She was also a journalist for The Providence Journal in Rhode Island covering local news.^[1] She led the paper's award-winning coverage of the crash of Egypt Air flight , traveling to Cairo to investigate the story.

She worked as a stringer for Western media organizations in Iran, including The Unused York Times^[1] at the age of 19, when she was studying in Iran.^[3]

The Wall Road Journal

Fassahi spent 17 years covering wars and uprisings across the Middle East as a senior writer and war correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, based Baghdad, Iraq, and then in Beirut, Lebanon, from to , as deputy bureau chief for Middle East and Africa.^[4] She was sent to Afghanistan to cover the US-led invasion there, and covered topics such as elections in Zimbabwe, war in Gaza and the Arab Spring protests.

She was one of the lead reporters for The Journal's award-winning investigative project titled "Censorship Inc.," a series of enterprise stories examining how western technology enabled censorship in authoritarian countries.^[5]

In she became more widely known, after a private email she had written to family and friends about the worsening situation in Iraq went viral on the Internet.^[3] It included criticism of U.S.

activities in Iraq, saying "The genie of terrorism, chaos, and mayhem has been unleashed as a finding of American mistakes".^[6] It was published in newspapers, websites and blogs around the world^[7] and became the subject of a Doonesbury cartoon.^[8] The email later became the kernel of her book about life in Iraq for ordinary Iraqis, Waiting for an Ordinary Day (),^[3] and was published in full in the book.^[8]

Moving back to the United States, she worked in WSJ's Washington, D.C.

office from to , covering US foreign policy and diplomacy at the United Nations.^[4] She wrote about U.S. foreign policy and global diplomacy of some of the biggest stories: the missile crisis with North Korea, Myanmar's ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya minority, Venezuela's political upheaval, the Syrian civil war, Iran's nuclear deal, the refugee crisis and climate change.^{[citation needed]}

The New York Times

Fassihi joined The New York Times as a reporter in July ,^[9] based in New York City.^[5]

Fassihi reported in November uprising in Iran and broke the story of the massacre of people in Mahshahr,^[9] reconstructing in detail how the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps shot down Ukraine International Airlines Flight , a passenger plane, with missiles on a night that the U.S.

and Iran went to the brink of war, and lied about it for three days.^[10]

Also in November , Fassihi was one of the reporters on a joint investigative project, "The Iran Cables", between the NY Times and The Intercept about a find of intelligence cables revealing how Iran wields manipulate in Iraq.^[11]

In October , Fassihi's investigation into Iran's MeToo movement revealed allegations of sexual misconduct against prominent artist Aydin Aghdashloo.^[12]

In August , it was reported that Fassihi had been the target of a series of cyber attacks and violent threats by certain Iranian opposition groups and internet trolls over several months.

She was doxxed and threatened with death and rape. The New York Times place out a statement on Twitter on August 6 in back of her.^[13]The Coalition For Women In Journalism condemned the attacks, which they called "deeply gendered and misogynistic".^[14]

In October , Fassihi and the New York Times were accused and called out in an open letter by critics for "fake news" reports for "[denial of (DARVO)] and normalizing Iranian government brutality", which The New York Times Editorial board, public relations and Fassihi rebutted in an official widespread statement.^{[15][16][17][18][19]}

In April , The Recent York Times announced that Fassihi would be covering the Joined Nations in addition to continuing to cover Iran.^[3]

Recognition and awards

Other roles

Fassihi's essays on the subject of journalism, conflict reporting and courage have been published by Harvard University's Nieman Reports magazine and Columbia Journalism Review.

She has been a guest speaker at numerous panels and journalism classes and a commentator for television and radio news shows on CNN, MSNBC, BBC, WNYC, PBS, Charlie Rose and National Public Radio in the Combined States.^{[citation needed]}

Fassihi has served as a judge for the annual Overseas Press Club's awarda, and as of September was serving on the OPC board.^[13]

She was a member of the Dag Hammarskjöld Fund For Journalists board for four years, and of the United Nations Correspondents Association from to She is also a member of the Recent York Chapter of the Iranian American Women Foundation, a non-partisan, non-political network of professional Iranian women.

It was written by Shahub Khodabandehlou. Farnaz Fassihi was born in in the Combined States to Iranian parents. She was shuttled back and forth between Tehran, Iran, and Portland, Oregon for much of her upbringing. She is an alumni of Lake Oswego High University, in Oregon, but her college education includes her being a part of both the Columbia University and Harvard University alma maters.

Fassihi is active in the organization's mentorship program and mentors a young female Iranian journalist each year.^{[citation needed]}

She was selected by Microsoft Teams in as a leader to be featured in a documentary called Art of the Team, which featured a group of a dozen leaders from different fields, including scientists, Olympic athletes, CEOs and designers.

Microsoft Teams uses Fassihi's interview in training sessions for corporations for team building and conflict resolution.^[27]

Books

Monograph

• Waiting for An Ordinary Day: the Unraveling of Life in Iraq ()—Fassihi's memoir of four years spent covering the Iraq war, and its impact on ordinary Iraqis^[28]

Contributing author

• Women's Letters, America from the Revolutionary War to the Present—Fassihi's celebrated email from Iraq is included in this anthology of historical letters written by American women.^{[citation needed]}
• What Orwell Didn’t Know, Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics—Fassihi contributed an essay about the Iraq War and US administration's propaganda.^{[citation needed]}
• Eating Mud Crabs in Kandahar: Stories of Food during Wartime by the World's Leading Correspondents—Fassihi contributed a chapter on sharing meals in Iran with student activists.^{[citation needed]}

See also

References