Saeed Kamali Dehghan

Saeed Kamali Dehghan (Persian: سعید کمالی دهقان born 1 May 1985 in Karaj, Iran) is an Iranian-British journalist who writes for The Guardian. He was named as the 2010 Journalist of the Year in Britain by the Foreign Press Association. He is a staff journalist for The Guardian working from its London offices, and has been an Iran correspondent from Tehran for the newspaper in the past, especially in summer 2009. He is a co-producer of the 2010 HBO documentary For Neda, which was a recipient of the 70th annual Peabody Award. Kamali Dehghan was born on 1 May 1985 in Karaj, a city near Tehran, the capital of Iran. He graduated in 2011 from the City University Department of Journalism, with a Master of Arts (MA) degree in International Journalism, after receiving a scholarship from Open Society Institute. His BA was in Rolling Stock Engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology.

He has written in Persian, English, and French for several different newspapers around the world, including Le Monde, Shargh and Etemaad. He covered Tehran unrest after the Iranian presidential election, 2009, for the foreign media, including CNN, CBC, France 24, Channel 4 and The Guardian.