Farnaz Fassihi
Farnaz Fassihi
Farnaz Fassihiis an award winning Iranian-American journalist. She is a senior staff writer for The Wall Street Journal covering the Middle East. . Fassihi is also the author of Waiting for An Ordinary Day, a memoir of her four years covering the Iraq war and witnessing the unraveling of social life for Iraqi citizens. Fassihi won six national journalism awards for her coverage of the Iranian presidential elections in 2009. She is a 2015 Nieman fellow at Harvard University...
NationalityIranian
ProfessionJournalist
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