Farnaz Fassihi is a reporter for The New York Times writing about Iran. She was previously a Senior Writer and war correspondent for The Wall Street Journal for 17 years. She covered wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, Gaza, Syria and Lebanon as well as uprisings in Iran and across the region. She specializes in investigative and enterprise projects, such as an investigation for the NYT into Iran’s Me Too movement, the massacre of ethnic Arabs in Mahshar in 2019 and at the Journal leading a global investigation into the role of western technology in censorship and surveillance. She has won more than a dozen national journalism awards and has been nominated seven times for a Pulitzer Prize. She is the author of the book, “Waiting for An Ordinary Day,” about the war in Iraq. Fassihi was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University in 2014-2015. She was the recipient of an Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2017.