Kourosh Ziabari is a journalist and media studies researcher. A contributor to Foreign Policy and New Lines Magazine, he has earned a master's degree in political journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. A non-resident journalist at the National Press Club, his work has appeared in The American Conservative, The National Interest, UnHerd, and The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, among others. In 2022, he was named the recipient of the Professional Excellence Award from the Foreign Press Correspondents Association. He is an alumnus of the East-West Center's Senior Journalists Seminar Fellowship and a 2022 World Press Institute fellow with the University of St. Thomas, MN. Kourosh was a finalist for three Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism in 2020, 2021 and 2022. He has covered the United Nations on a Dag Hammarskjold Fund for Journalists fellowship and received the silver medal of the Prince Albert II of Monaco and United Nations Correspondents Association Global Prize for Coverage of Climate Change. He was a Chevening Scholar of the class of 2016/17 with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.