Kourosh Ziabari is an award-winning journalist and Asia Times correspondent and a former Chevening Scholarships recipient. He is an alumnus of the Senior Journalists Seminar Fellowship by the East-West Center, a 2021 Dag Hammarskjold Fund for Journalists fellow, and a 2022 World Press Institute fellow. He was a finalist for two Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism in 2020 and 2021, and his writings have appeared on Foreign Policy, The National Interest, openDemocracy, Responsible Statecraft, Middle East Eye, and The New Arab. On Twitter: @KZiabari