Fariba Nawa, an
award-winning Afghan-American journalist, covers a range of issues and
specializes in immigrant and Muslim communities in the United States and abroad. She is a correspondent based in the San Francisco Bay Area but
frequently travels to the Middle East and South Asia. She lived and reported from Afghanistan from 2002 to 2007, witness to the US-led war against the Taliban and al Qaeda.
She has also reported from Iraq, Pakistan, Iran, Egypt and Germany.
She has a master's in Middle Eastern studies and journalism and speaks
Persian/Farsi and Arabic.
Her work has appeared in the Sunday Times of London,
Newsday, Mother Jones, The Village Voice, The Christian Science Monitor and
other publications. She also reports for radio, including National Public Radio
(NPR). Her essays have been published in two books, March to War and Women for
Afghan Women. She's a speaker on Middle East and South Asian issues and has participated in talks at the World Affairs
Council, major universities and has been interviewed by major television and
radio networks. She's currently writing a book about the drug trade in
Afghanistan, the culmination of six years of research traveling across the
country to document the impact of narcotics in Afghanistan. The book is due to be
published in fall 2010 by HarperCollins.
She is available for interviews and talks and can be reached at fnawa@hotmail.com.
