Scheherezade Faramarzi

About Scheherezade Faramarzi

Scheherezade Faramarzi, a 2009 Nieman Fellow, is a longtime correspondent with The Associated Press based in Beirut, Lebanon. Born in Iran and educated in the West, she has reported on the 1979 Islamic Revolution and its aftermath, the Iran-Iraq war, the U.S. Embassy hostage crisis in Iran, and more recent events involving Iran and Middle East conflicts.