Kourosh Ziabari is an award-winning journalist and media studies researcher based in New York. A contributor to New Lines Magazine, his work has appeared in Foreign Policy, The American Conservative, and Nieman Reports, among others. He is an alumnus of the East-West Center’s Senior Journalists Seminar fellowship. He earned a master's degree in political journalism from Columbia Journalism School, and in 2016-17, he was a Chevening Scholar with the UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office.