Kourosh Ziabari is studying International Multimedia Journalism at the University of Kent’s Centre for Journalism. He is a 2016–17 Chevening Scholar from Iran. He has won several awards at Iran’s National Press Festival. He is the recipient of a Senior Journalists Seminar 2015 fellowship from the East-West Center in Hawaii and covered the World Forum for Democracy 2016 in Strasbourg on a fellowship by the Council of Europe. Kourosh writes for Fair Observer and International Policy Digest on Iranian politics and culture and also contributes to the Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations. Follow him on Twitter: @KZiabari.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaNowruz: bringing people together at times of conflictComprehending the value of a festival that has weathered so many storms is not easy. That's why Nowruz is cherished. Nowruz Mubarak!
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWhat would an Iranian secularism look like ?Iranians are discussing many important and crucial things these days: things that the government might not be able to find an answer to in the foreseeable future.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe "Iran deal": when American and Iranian conservatives are on the same sideThe domestic critics of the Iran deal and its Republican misanthropists in the United States are making a similar mistake.
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Published in: HomeTrump’s dream: a nightmare for the Iran dealUS-Iran relations are about to get a lot uglier.
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Published in: HomeKnow your rightsInclusive, democratic education means including refugee children too. openDemocracy’s youth newsroom reports from a lab looking at immigration and education.
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Published in: HomeSuccessful education takes place through youth-empowered media"Bargaining away the truth and denying the people their right to know is what erodes and ruins even the most solid democracies."