Farnaz Fassihi Biography

Farnaz Fassihi is a senior writer and former deputy bureau chief of Middle East and Africa for The Wall Street Journal and the author of Waiting for An Ordinary Day a memoir of her four years covering the Iraq war and witnessing the unraveling of life for Iraqi citizens. In May 2006 Fassihi was awarded the prestigious Henry Pringle Lecture Award for her Iraq coverage by Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Her coverage of the EgyptAir flight 990 crash won the New England News Executive Award as well as a finalist nomination for the Livingston Award.
She is a 2018 recipient of an Ellis Island Medal of Honor in recognition of her distinguished contribution to America's society. Fassihi won six national journalism awards for her coverage of the Iranian presidential elections in 2009. She is a 2015 Nieman fellow at Harvard University.
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