Saeed Kamali Dehghan | |
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Born |
Persian: سعید کمالی دهقان 1 May 1985 (age 31) Karaj, Iran |
Residence | London, United Kingdom |
Nationality | Iranian |
Occupation | Journalist |
Saeed Kamali Dehghan (Persian: سعید کمالی دهقان born 1 May 1985 in Karaj, Iran) is an Iranian-British journalist who writes for The Guardian. He was named as the 2010 Journalist of the Year in Britain at the Foreign Press Association. He currently writes for The Guardian as a staff journalist from its London offices and has worked as an Iran correspondent for The Guardian from Tehran in the past, especially in summer 2009. He is a co-producer of the HBO's documentary For Neda and was a recipient of the 70th annual Peabody Award for his HBO film.
Kamali Dehghan was born on 1 May 1985 in Karaj, a city near Tehran, the capital of Iran. He graduated in 2011 from the City University Department of Journalism, with a Master of Arts (MA) in International Journalism, after receiving a scholarship from Open Society Institute. His BA was in Rolling Stock Engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology.
He has written in Persian, English and French for a number of different newspapers around the world, including Le Monde,Shargh and Etemaad. He covered Tehran unrest after the Iranian presidential election, 2009, for the foreign media including CNN,CBC, France 24, Channel 4 and The Guardian.