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Ramita Navai

Ramita Navai is a British-Iranian foreign affairs journalist and author.After a postgraduate degree in journalism at City University London, where she won the Broadcast Journalism Training Council Young Journalist of the Year award, Navai worked as the Tehran correspondent for The Times from 2003-2006, where she covered events including the Bam earthquake, parliamentary and presidential elections. She has reported from over thirty different countries, including reporting for the UN in Iran, Pakistan and Iraqi Kurdistan. She has made twenty documentaries for Channel 4’s award-winning current affairs series Unreported World. For ITN / Channel 4 News she has made various features, including investigating child trafficking in India, police killings of gang members in Brazil and the drug 'paco' in the slums of Argentina. She has written for many publications including the Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Independent, 'The New Statesman and The Irish Times. In 2012 she won an Emmy award for her undercover report from Syria for PBS' Frontline.Her first book, City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran was published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in May 2014 and was published in the USA by PublicAffairs in September 2014. City of Lies won the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for non-fiction. In September 2014 she appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Unreported World documentaries: Egypt: Sex Mobs and Revolution Honduras and Mexico: The Lost Girls Undercover Syria Breaking into Israel Burundi: Boys Behind Bars Zimbabwe's Blood Diamonds Afghanistan's Child Drug Addicts USA: Down and Out El Salvador: The Child Assassins Sudan: How to Fuel a Famine Peru: Blood and Oil Turkey: Killing for Honour Papua New Guinea: Bush Knives and Black Magic Nigeria: Child Brides, Stolen Lives South Africa: Body Parts for Sale Bangladesh: The Drowning Country India: The Broken People China: Chongqing: Invisible city Guatemala: City of the Dead Malaysia: Asia's Slaves↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑