Kourosh Ziabari

New York

Award-winning journalist | Words @newlinesmag, @ForeignPolicy, @UnHerd, etc. | MA @ColumbiaJourn | @PENamerica Member | @worldpressinst, @EastWestCenter Fellow

Articles

Caught in Trump’s Immigration Dragnet

3 weeks ago | newlinesmag.com | Kourosh Ziabari

Since Jan. 20, Columbia, Georgetown, Harvard and Tufts universities have been unwittingly competing for media coverage around President Donald Trump’s crackdown on college campuses. In each school, notable students have been targeted for punitive action for similar reasons: expressing views on Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza that the U.S. government doesn’t endorse. An unlikely name in the lineup of targeted schools was the University of Alabama.
The late Iranian architect who made America beautiful again

1 month ago | newarab.com | Kourosh Ziabari

Many residents of Minneapolis, Minnesota, cross over the Irene Hixon Whitney Bridge every day or move past it. It offers a unique vantage point to the well-liked Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, epitomised by the iconic $500,000 Spoonbridge and Cherry sculptural design. Most of the locals recognise Whitney, a Twin Cities philanthropist and civic leader who was married to the 1980 Independent-Republican gubernatorial candidate Wheelock Whitney and passed away in 1986.
Iran’s Civil Society May Be its Best Hope

2 months ago | thecairoreview.com | Kourosh Ziabari

In January 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the assassination of the influential commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Gen. Qassem Soleimani, prompting Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to place a de facto moratorium on any negotiations with the White House. Five years later, a breakthrough in relations may be in the making as the two traditional nemeses meet again.
The war on Iran's journalists

2 months ago | unherd.com | Kourosh Ziabari

CensorshipFree SpeechIranislamic republicJournalismrestofworldSociety Over 30 years ago, in the northern Iranian city of Rasht, Seyed Hossein Ziabari decided to launch a magazine. Called Hatef, the Arabic and Persian for “Voice”, it was a journal of culture and society, focused especially on the endangered Gilaki language spoken in this rainy, lush valley by the Caspian.
Trolovi države - Tacno.net

Mar 28, 2025 | tacno.net | Kourosh Ziabari

Foto: PexelsMnogo prije nego što je Elon Musk preuzeo Twitter za nenadmašnu pomoć od 44 milijarde dolara samo da bi ga preimenovao u X, govor mržnje bacio je zloslutnu sjenu na društveni medijski prostor na perzijskom jeziku. Otpuštanjem futurističkog magneta polovice moderatora sadržaja kompanije, 80 posto inženjera u odjelu za povjerenje i sigurnost i gotovo cijelog Ethical AI tima, otvorili su se kapije uvredljivog jezika koje koriste korisnici koji objavljuju poruke na perzijskom.
Trolls of the state

Mar 11, 2025 | ips-journal.eu | Kourosh Ziabari

Long before Elon Musk took over Twitter for an unbeatable handout of $44 billion only to rename it to X, hate speech had cast an ominous shadow on the Persian-language social media space. With the futuristic magnet’s dismissal of half of the company’s , 80 per cent of the engineers in the trust and safety department and almost the whole Ethical AI team, the floodgates of abusive language employed by users posting in Persian were opened.
What Have the Iran Sanctions Achieved?

Mar 2, 2025 | theamericanconservative.com | Kourosh Ziabari

Foreign Affairs What Have the Iran Sanctions Achieved? Forty-six years of aggressive economic punishment have, perversely, only entrenched the ayatollahs. Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Sanctions on Iran were first rolled out soon after the suspension of diplomatic relations between Tehran and Washington on the heels of the 1979 hostage crisis.
California Fires Stoke Divisions Among Iranian-Americans

Feb 2, 2025 | theamericanconservative.com | Kourosh Ziabari

Foreign Affairs California Fires Stoke Divisions Among Iranian-Americans In the “little Iran” of Los Angeles, reactions to the disaster highlighted discord. Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... The destruction wrought by the Southern California wildfires elicited mixed reactions from Iran, where Western cliches about a monolithic theocratic elite rarely survive scrutiny.
Duel with Israel is Turbocharging Iranian Nationalism

Jan 21, 2025 | thecairoreview.com | Kourosh Ziabari

The October 26, 2024, Israeli airstrikes on 20 sites across Iran reportedly dismantled its air defense systems with some reports claiming that it would take at least a year for the Islamic Republic’s ballistic missile capability to be restored. Although authorities in Tehran in their habitual projected defiance downplayed the extent of damages, their lack of a retaliatory response after three months relays a deeper message about the country’s current state of military strength.
Why isn’t America talking about Trump’s planned Muslim ban 2.0?

Oct 29, 2024 | hyphenonline.com | Kourosh Ziabari

In 2017, Samira Asgari spent seven days trying to fly from Europe to the United States, where she was supposed to begin a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. Day after day, the Iranian-born computational biologist was turned away from departure gates owing to airlines’ fears of violating President Donald Trump’s newly declared “Muslim ban”.