Farnaz FASSIHI

The New York Times

Farnaz Fassihi is a journalist and author writing for The New York Times. She was a Senior Writer at the Wall Street Journal for 17 years, covering wars in the Middle East and diplomacy at the United Nations. She is the author of a book on the Iraq war, “Waiting for an Ordinary Day,” and is currently penning a second book about Iran. She returned to New York to cover the U.N. after serving 14 years in the Middle East as a senior foreign correspondent, Baghdad bureau chief and deputy bureau chief for Middle East and Africa. She covered wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, Gaza, Syria and Lebanon as well as uprisings across the region including Iran and the Arab Spring. She has won numerous awards for her work including Front Page Award’s Best Foreign Correspondent of the year in 2015, two Overseas Press Club Awards and Robert Kennedy Award. She has been nominated seven times for a Pulitzer Prize.  In 2015, Fassihi was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University.