BABAK DEHGHANPISHEH

Babak Dehghanpisheh is currently a Knight fellow at Stanford University. He was named Newsweek's Baghdad Bureau Chief in December 2006 and was a 2003 finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists for his Iraq coverage. Before going to Iraq, Dehghanpisheh reported extensively on America's war on terror both from New York and later, Afghanistan. In the fall of 2002, Dehghanpisheh was the lead reporter for "The War Crimes of Afghanistan," which won a National Headliner Award and was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for public service. Dehghanpisheh also has reported frequently from Iran, Syria, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon, where he filed from the frontlines with Hezbollah guerrillas during the war with Israel in summer 2006. Dehghanpisheh first worked for Newsweek as a freelancer in the Johannesburg bureau of the magazine and then as an intern in the New York bureau in the summer of 2001. Since then, he has worked on more than 25 Newsweek cover stories and contributed to the war coverage which garnered Newsweek a 2004 National Magazine Award for General Excellence. He has appeared regularly on CNN, MSNBC, FOX and NPR.