Ramita Navai (Persian: رامیتا نوایی; born 21 July 1973)[1] is a British journalist, documentary producer, and author.

[15] For ITN / Channel 4 News, she has made various features, including investigating child trafficking in India[16] and police gang-killings in Brazil.

City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran was published in the UK by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in May 2014 and in the US by PublicAffairs in September 2014.

Navai slips effortlessly into the boots of earthy, urban writer to tour Tehran’s ripped backsides in this intimate, grand guignol debut.

She transports us through the Iranian capital’s multiple personas with deft and knowing navigation: never short of love for even the lowliest of her fellow Tehranis.

[49]Eliza Griswold, The Sunday Telegraph:A talented writer, she quickly sucks us in with her first character ... Navai has a reporter’s eye for the telling detail… this is a timely and beautifully written insight into the lives of Tehranis.