Omid Memarian regularly contributes to the Daily Beast and has published op-ed pieces in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle and Time.com. A World Peace Fellow at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism from 2007-2009, he received Human Rights Watch's highest honor in 2005, the Human Rights Defender Award. He can be reached at mailmemarian@gmail.com. On Twitter: @Omid_M