Nazila Fathi (born December 28, 1970) is an Iranian-Canadian author and former Teheran correspondent for The New York Times.
[3] Frustrated by the Iranian government's multi-year press accreditation process, Fathi moved to Canada in 1999 and became a Canadian citizen.
[4] She earned an MA in political science and women's studies from the University of Toronto in 2001 before returning to Tehran as a correspondent for The New York Times.
In early 2009, the Iranian government banned international journalists from stopping coverage of the protests,[6] but Fathi continued to report.
[1][12][13][14] Fathi also translated Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi's book, The History and Documentation of Human Rights in Iran.