Nazila Fathi

Nazila Fathi is a journalist, translator and commentator on Iran and the author of The Lonely War: One Woman’s Account of the Struggle for Modern 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 for the New York Times from 2001-2009, during a time when she penned over 2,000 articles for the Times. Prior to that, she wrote for Time magazine and Agence France Press. In 2001, she translated into English a book, History and Documentation of Human Rights in Iran, by the Noble Peace Prize Laureate, Shirin Ebadi.

She has written for the New York Review of Books, Foreign Policy, Vogue and Harvard Nieman Report and has been a guest speaker on CNN, BBC, CBC and NPR. She received her M.A. from University of Toronto in political science. She was awarded a Raoul Wallenberg Fellowship at Lund University in 2003, a Nieman Fellowship for journalism at Harvard in 2010-11, a Shorenstein Fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School in 2012 and a fellowship at Harvard Belfer Center in 2012-13.