Kourosh Ziabari

Kourosh Ziabari is a journalist and media studies researcher. A contributor to Foreign Policy and New Lines Magazine, he has earned a master’s degree in political journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In 2022, he received the Professional Excellence Award from the Foreign Press Correspondents Association. In 2022, Kourosh became the first journalist from Iran to be selected for the World Press Institute fellowship with the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota, since 1979. He was a finalist for three Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism in 2020, 2021 and 2022 and has reported from the United Nations on a Dag Hammarskjold Fund for Journalists fellowship. He was a 2016/17 Chevening Scholar with the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office.