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Kourosh Ziabari

Kourosh Ziabari is a journalist and media studies researcher based in New York. A contributor to New Lines Magazine, his work has appeared in Foreign Policy, The American Conservative and Politico, among others. He is an alumnus of the East-West Center’s Senior Journalists Seminar Fellowship and a 2022 World Press Institute fellow with the University of St. Thomas, MN. Kourosh was a finalist for three Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism in 2020, 2021 and 2022. He has covered the United Nations on a Dag Hammarskjold Fund for Journalists fellowship and received the silver medal of the Prince Albert II of Monaco and United Nations Correspondents Association Global Prize for climate reporting. He completed his postgraduate studies in political journalism at Columbia Journalism School in 2024. 


Articles by Kourosh Ziabari

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Press FreedomGlobal Free Expression
Tuesday February 17

Iran’s Journalists: The Muted Voices of a Movement

“This is precisely the time when the voices of Iranian writers and journalists are needed more than before.”