Ramita Navai
Ramita Navai (born July 21, 1973 in Tehran , Iran ) is a British journalist of Iranian origin.
Life
Ramita Navai's family emigrated to Great Britain during the Islamic Revolution in 1979. She grew up bilingual and with two cultures in London. Navai attended Putney High School from 1984 to 1991. She studied modern languages at the University of Westminster and completed a postgraduate degree in broadcast journalism from City University London in 2003 .
In 2003 she returned to Tehran for the first time as a correspondent for the Times , where she stayed until 2006. Since then she has worked in London as a freelance journalist for the British quality press and as a reporter. She produced twenty documentaries in Macedonia, India and Brazil for the Unreported World series on Channel 4 . She received an Emmy Award in 2012 for an undercover report from the civil war in Syria in 2011, which was broadcast on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Frontline report .
Her book City of Lies , published in 2014, is based on eight interviews with young Tehrans, which she reworked into an anonymous documentary fiction in order to protect the respondents. She preceded the book with an aphorism by the popular Persian poet Saadi :
- The well-intentioned lie is better than the truth inflicting bad wounds .
Writings / reports (selection)
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City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 2014.
- City of lies. Love, sex and death in Tehran . Translation of Yamin von Rauch. No & But, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-0369-5750-0 .
- Translations also French, Italian, Polish, Dutch
Web links
- Literature by and about Ramita Navai in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Ramita Navai in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Short biography and reviews of works by Ramita Navai at perlentaucher.de
- Ramita Navai in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ramita Navai , Interview with Geographical , June 1, 2014
- ↑ Marc Reichwein: With lust against the mullahs . Short review, in: Literary World , July 23, 2016, p. 3
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Navai, Ramita |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 21, 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tehran , Iran |