Since the Biden administration’s chaotic withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan last summer, women there have experienced domestic violence on a national scale—so says “Afghanistan Undercover,” a ...
In August 2021, shortly after the Taliban took over Afghanistan, spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid held a press conference in which he vowed that the insurgents would defend women's rights according to ...
When journalist Ramita Navai was on a reporting trip inside Iraq last year, she heard a number that struck her: 643. That’s how many men and boys have gone missing from Saqlawiyah, an Iraqi town 45 ...
British-Iranian correspondent Ramita Navai was in Bayeux, Normandy on Thursday to present the première of her documentary "Afghanistan: No Country for Women", a harrowing look at life under the ...
Ramita Navai is no stranger to dangerous reporting trips. In 2011, the British-Iranian journalist went undercover in Syria for FRONTLINE as the conflict there was beginning to spiral out of control — ...
Ramita Navai is a British-Iranian journalist Credit: Photo: Graeme Robertson 'Let’s get one thing straight: in order to live in Iran you have to lie,” the British-Iranian journalist Ramita Navai ...
To live in Tehran, writes British-Iranian journalist Ramita Navai in this collection of true stories, requires one essential skill: lying. “Morals don’t come into it,” Navai writes. “Lying in Tehran ...
“When are the Americans coming to save us from these mullahs?” my fellow Iranians would ask when I started my journalism career in Tehran some 22 years ago. That was just before the Middle East was ...
Ms Danielle Dunne has been appointed His Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Paraguay in succession to Mr Ramin Navai who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment in El ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran, by Ramita Navai, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, RRP£18.99, ...