Covering Authoritarian Regimes From Afar: Reflections on Reporting and Writing on Iran
Nilo Tabrizy (UBC POLI alum, investigative journalist and author) in conversation with Dr. Masoud Zamani
Thursday March 19th, 4:30-6:30pm, IKBLC Peña Room, 1961 East Mall (Irving K Barber Learning Centre)
How can those who report on and write about authoritarian regimes from afar best do their work? What are the contributions made by foreign journalists, especially members of the diaspora, when telling the stories of those involved in struggles againstthese regimes? What role will reporting outside Iran play over the coming weeks and months in Iran? Join us for a dialogue with journalist and UBC Arts alum Nilo Tabrizy (ntabrizy.com), whose acclaimed new book For the Sun After Long Nights (Pantheon / Penguin Random House Canada, co-authored with Fatemeh Jamalpour) chronicles Iran’s Women, Life, Freedom uprising. Nilo Tabrizy will be in conversation with UBC Political Science instructor Dr. Masoud Zamani (masoudzamani.ca), former Professor of Law at Shiraz University.
Nilo Tabrizy is a graduate of UBC (Political Science, French) and holds a master of journalism from Columbia University. She is an investigative journalist specializing in open-source reporting methods and forensic journalism. She has worked for Vice News, The New York Times, and the Washington Post. She is co-author of For The Sun After Long Nights, a book about the 2022 women-led uprising in Iran and how journalists told the story of those protests from inside and outside Iran. It was longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
Presented by the Department of Political Science; School of Public Policy and Global Affairs; Asian Studies; Program of International Relations; UBC School of Journalism, Writing, and Media; UBC Canada Research Chair in Race, Ethnicity, Migration, and Identity; UBC Bachelor of Media Studies
