Kourosh Ziabari is a journalist and media studies researcher based in New York. A contributor to New Lines Magazine, 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, Minnesota. Ziabari has covered the United Nations on a Dag Hammarskjold Fund for Journalists fellowship. His writings have appeared in Foreign Policy, Politico, The American Conservative, openDemocracy and Truthout, among others. He has earned a master’s in political journalism from Columbia Journalism School. Follow him on X (Twitter).