Fariba Nawa - Afghan-American Journalist - Afghan-American Journalist

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Fariba Nawa is an investigative journalist and co-founder of On Spec Podcast.

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When Iranian soldiers defect, they often try to hide nearby in Turkey. But the regime attempts to track them down using a vast surveillance dragnet and local muscle. This is a story about how kidnapping and repatriation can go very wrong.

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An Exile Finds Home: Fariba Nawa at TEDx Monterey

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My father Fazul Haq Nawa, who passed in 2015, was the inspiration for this TED talk. His embrace of pluralism, tolerance and women’s rights gave me my wings to flourish. I paused my foreign reporting career and returned to California to care for my dad when he developed dementia at the same time that I had my daughters. This talk was my way of letting go of my father and my homeland Afghanistan.

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Lethal Dissent

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On Spec’s 18-month investigation takes you inside the secret war waged on Iranian dissidents in exile. We follow poets, soldiers, politicians and ordinary folk who have escaped the Islamic Republic but still live in fear of being hunted down and forced back to Iran to be imprisoned or executed.

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An American murder in Istanbul: Justice for Halla

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Trans national migration

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Through Children’s Eyes

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I’ve trained emerging reporters and writers from Kabul to Cairo, sitting side by side to help them find their inner novelist or journalist. The art of writing is a craft improved with practice and the guidance of an effective teacher. I owe my skills to my editors and English literature teachers. I’ve taught at universities and most recently a secret online school for Afghan girls, who are banned from learning beyond the sixth grade under the Taliban.

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