Education
He graduated in 2011 from the City University Department of Journalism, with a Master of Arts (Master of Arts) in International Journalism, after receiving a scholarship from Open Society Institute.
He graduated in 2011 from the City University Department of Journalism, with a Master of Arts (Master of Arts) in International Journalism, after receiving a scholarship from Open Society Institute.
He has been named as the 2010 Journalist of the Year in Britain at the Foreign Press Association. He currently writes for The Guardian as a staff journalist from its London offices and has worked as an Iran correspondent for The Guardian from Tehran in the past, especially in summer 2009. Kamali Dehghan was born on 1 May 1985 in Karaj, a city near Tehran, the capital of Iran.
His Bachelor was in Rolling Stock Engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology.
He has written in Persian, English and French for a number of 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 Cable News Network, Canadian Broadcasting Company, France 24, Channel 4 and The Guardian.
Saeed Kamali Dehghan has conducted several original interviews with internationally known writers and filmmakers, including David Lynch, Mario Vargas Llosa, Paul Auster, John Barth, JM Coetzee, East. L. Doctorow, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Amélie Nothomb, Andreï Makine, Isabel Allende, Tzvetan Todorov, T.C. Boyle, Alain de Botton and Noam Chomsky.
Saeed Kamali Dehghan is named as the 2010 Journalist of the Year at the Foreign Press Association. He also received the Faculty of Public Affairs award for the Best Documentary of the Year for making "Foreign Neda". He is also a recipient of the 70th annual Peabody Award for his film Foreign Neda. He received a Peabody Award in a ceremony hosted by Larry King in New York"s Waldorf-Asotria on May 23, 2011.
