Ramita Navai
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Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Ramita Navai
- City: London
- Country: United Kingdom
- Hometown: Tehran, Iran
My Life & Work
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Bio:
Ramita Navai is an award-winning British-Iranian journalist, documentary producer and author. She has reported from over forty countries and has a reputation for investigations in hostile environments.
She was the Tehran correspondent for The Times from 2003 - 2006, with five front pages. She reported for IRIN News (now The New Humanitarian) in Pakistan, Iraqi Kurdistan and Iran, as well as writing for many other newspapers and magazines.
From 2006 - 20012 she was a reporter on Channel 4's Unreported World, making twenty documentaries from countries including Afghanistan, El Salvador, Honduras, Egypt, Burundi, Nigeria and Zimbabwe.
In 2012 she won an Emmy award for her PBS Frontline documentary Syria Undercover.
She has made several news features for Channel 4 News including Tracking down the Refugee Kidnap Gangs which won a Royal Television Society Journalism Award and the Foreign Press Association News Story of the Year Award.
She reported and produced Iraq Uncovered for PBS Frontline and ISIS and the Battle for Iraq for Channel 4’s Dispatches, winning the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the British Journalism Award for Foreign Affairs and the Frontline Club Broadcast Journalism Award. Iraq Uncovered was also nominated for two Emmy awards (Outstanding Investigation and Outstanding Research).
She reported and produced U.N. Sex Abuse Scandal for PBS Frontline, Channel 4's Dispatches and ARTE. It won the Robert. F. Kennedy 2019 Journalism Award (International Television), and was nominated for an Emmy Awards (Outstanding Investigation), as well as being shortlisted for two Grierson Awards.
Her first book City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran won the Debut Political Book of the Year at the 2015 Political Book Awards, and was awarded the Royal Society of Literature's Jerwood Prize for non-fiction. It has been translated into five languages.
She is a contributing author to Shifting Sands: The Unravelling of the Old Order in the Middle East (published in the UK, US and soon Turkey).
She is regularly interviewed about her work and has been a guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Morning Joe, Sky News, BBC News, BBC Radio 4’s The Today programme among many others.
She appeared as herself in a scene with Mandy Patinkin in episode 1 of the final Homeland TV series.
Contact Information
- Contact by Webpage: http://www.ramitanavai.com/contact
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Management/Booking:
FOR ALL TV ENQUIRIES RAMITA IS REPRESENTED BY VANESSA FOGARTY AT CURTIS BROWN: presenters@curtisbrown.co.uk
FOR BOOK ENQUIRIES, RAMITA IS REPRESENTED BY SOPHIE LAMBERT AT CONVILLE AND WALSH
My Media & Markets
- ▶ Book Purchases: http://www.ramitanavai.com/buy
- ▶ Twitter: ramitanavai
- ▶ Instagram: senoritaramita
- ▶ Website: http://www.ramitanavai.com
- ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsVSuq14TYnT3cM0unvQXyA
- ▶ Articles: http://www.ramitanavai.com/articles
Clips (more may be added)
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The fight against sexual harassment in Egypt | Unreported World
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Inside Assad's Syria: Fighting the regime | Unreported World
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The country where women go missing | Unreported World
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Eritrea to Israel: Dying to cross the border | Unreported World
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The Child Prisoners in Burundi’s Adult Jails | Unreported World
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Iraq Uncovered | Trailer | FRONTLINE
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What Happened to the Missing Men and Boys of Saqlawiyah? | Iraq Uncovered | FRONTLINE
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FRONTLINE "Syria Undercover" | Excerpt: "Safe House" | PBS
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