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Roxana Saberi is a senior producer/reporter for Al Jazeera America in New York. From 2003 to 2009, she lived and worked as a journalist in Iran, filing reports for organizations such as Feature Story News, NPR, BBC, ABC Radio and Fox News. She was writing a book about Iran when she was arrested in 2009 in Tehran and falsely accused of espionage. She was released after 100 days. Back in the United States, Ms. Saberi wrote Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran. She also worked as a freelance journalist, with articles appearing in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times.
AN AMERICAN JOURNALIST TAKEN HOSTAGE IN IRAN R O X A N A
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Saberi has also spoken across the United States and has traveled to Europe, South America, and the Middle East to speak with the public, media, and government officials about Iran, human rights, and overcoming adversity. She has received the Medill Medal of Courage, the Ilaria Alpi Freedom of the Press Award, the NCAA Award of Valor, a Project for Middle East Democracy Award, a Concordia College Sent Forth Alumni Award, and an East-West Freedom Award from the Levantine Cultural Center. She was named one of Jaycees’ 2011 Ten Outstanding Young Americans and was honored by the Japanese American Citizens League as an “Outstanding Woman.” Saberi grew up in Fargo, North Dakota, the daughter of Reza Saberi, who was born in Iran, and Akiko Saberi, who is from Japan. She was chosen Miss North Dakota in 1997 and was among the top ten finalists in Miss America 1998. She graduated from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, with degrees in communications and French. Saberi holds her first master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University and her second master’s degree in international relations from the University of Cambridge.
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