Jason Rezaian

Aug 2, 2024 | csis.org | Jason Rezaian

This commentary was originally published in the Washington Poston August 1, 2024. I’m thrilled and relieved that Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan, Alsu Kurmasheva, and my Post colleague Vladimir Kara-Murza have been released from Russian prisons. Over the years, I’ve gotten to know members of the extraordinary families of these brave individuals. This is a moment for them to rejoice and celebrate their loved ones’ safe return.

Jul 24, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Jason Rezaian

Ethiopian cuisine is a huge part of the rich and complex dining scene in and around the nation’s capital. “I don’t know who told me about America. I don’t know where I got it, but I always said, ‘I’m going to America,’” Elsabete Yirge, chef and co-owner of Elsa Ethiopian Kitchen, told me as we dug into a spread of classic Ethiopian dishes presented in the traditional way, atop injera bread on a large communal tray.

Jul 17, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Jason Rezaian

Foods with their origins in China, the first of which arrived nearly two centuries ago during the Gold Rush, are incredibly popular and prevalent in America. Eateries serving some variation of Chinese food outnumber McDonald’s, Burger King and Wendy’s shops combined. But Chinese food isn’t monolithic, even in the diaspora. It’s all about flavors and characters. And at a tiny Szechuan restaurant peeking out of the ground floor of an office building in McLean, you get large helpings of both.

Jul 10, 2024 | marinmagazine.com | Margaux Ivanhoe |Jason Rezaian

In 2001 I began traveling to Iran. Leaving an easy life in Marin to report on my father’s complex homeland, I quickly understood there was a key essential ingredient missing from my journalism. Photos. I could write a story, but without images to animate the ideas, characters and social trends I was documenting, it would be a challenge for readers to feel the places and people I was attempting to explain to them.

Jul 10, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Jason Rezaian

Mention Bosnia and many Americans remember the brutal ethnic wars that tore apart the country in the 1990s. But just off Rockville Pike an entrepreneur originally from Sarajevo is hoping to alter that association in customers’ minds, one flaky layer of dough at a time. Bosnia has a population of 3.2 million, with almost as many people living in the diaspora. The largest group of Bosnians outside of Europe now lives in the Midwest. With the wars of the 1990s, however, many also came to the D.C. area.