Ramita Navai
Autor von City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran
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Ramita Navai is a British-Iranian foreign affairs journalist. She was the Tehran correspondent for the Times from 2003 to 2006. She has reported from over thirty countries, made twenty documentaries for Channel 4's series Unreported World, and was awarded an Emmy for her undercover report from mehr anzeigen Syria for PBS's Frontline. Ramita Navai lives in London. weniger anzeigen
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- Ramita Navai is an Emmy award-winning British-Iranian journalist and author. She has reported from over thirty different countries and has a reputation for investigations and work in hostile environments.
As well as making twenty documentaries for Channel 4's Unreported World, she has reported for the United Nations in Pakistan, Iraqi Kurdistan and Iran. She has written for many newspapers and publications, and was the Tehran correspondent for The Times from 2003 - 2006.
Her first book City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran won the Debut Political Book of the Year at the Paddy Power Political Book Awards 2015, and was awarded the Royal Society of Literature's Jerwood Prize for non-fiction.
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Surely i got a better understanding of all those unsavory things, but i have a feeling that i was deprived of 80% sunny percents of the Iranians' daily lives. And the impression i got of the society is very skewed. I recognize this from my own experience of talking to foreigners in Russia, who come wide-eyed, well-versed in country's multiple shortcomings, and thoroughly suspicious. Yes, maybe 100% of what they read is true, but it's somehow apparent that i live in a parallel world, mostly blissfully unscathed by all these demonic stories, fed to hapless foreigners. Question is -whose life is real then?… (mehr)