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Sara Jamshidi

Sara Jamshidi is an award-winning Iranian American journalist based in Seattle. She teaches journalism at the University of Washington and produces Peacemindedly, a podcast focusing on peace in the Middle East.

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How Long will Palestinians go on being Scapegoats for the West's Atrocities in WWII?

How Long will Palestinians go on being Scapegoats for the West’s Atrocities in WWII?

Sara Jamshidi

Seattle, Wa. (Special to Informed Comment; Featured) – If an Arab writer would create a Palestinian version of Schindler’s List, and if an Arab, or a filmmaker sympathetic to Arabs, would create the movie, I wonder what the story would look like. I wonder what the writer would write. I wonder what the filmmaker would […]

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For the Sake of Preventing More Journalists’ Murders, Biden Must Punish Saudi Arabia’s MBS (And I Should Know)

For the Sake of Preventing More Journalists’ Murders, Biden Must Punish Saudi Arabia’s MBS (And I Should Know)

Sara Jamshidi

Seattle (Special to Informed Comment) – The horrific outcome of Jamal Khashoggi’s story is not dissimilar to the tales of many journalists, including my own, who decide to fight against tyranny using words instead of violence. Fear, terror, and horror cannot begin to describe the common situations in which we find ourselves. Back in Tehran, […]

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