Delphine Minoui (born 1974) is a French journalist specializing in the

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

ian world.

Life

She majored in journalism at the

CELSA Paris CELSA is a French communication and journalism school (''grande école'') located in the West of Paris, ( Neuilly-sur-Seine) and is part of the Sorbonne University. The name CELSA is an acronym for the French phrase 'Centre d'études littéraires ...

in 1997, then graduated from the

EHESS The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (french: École des hautes études en sciences sociales; EHESS) is a graduate ''grande école'' and ''grand établissement'' in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences. The ...

in 1999. Delphine Minoui moved to Iran to practice her profession. A correspondent of

France Inter France Inter () is a major French public radio channel and part of Radio France. It is a "generalist" station, aiming to provide a wide national audience with a full service of news and spoken-word programming, both serious and entertaining, li ...

and France Info from 1999, she collaborated from 2002 with ''

Le Figaro ''Le Figaro'' () is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It is headquartered on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. The oldest national newspaper in France, ''Le Figaro'' is one of three French newspapers of reco ...

''. She has also directed and collaborated on several documentaries. In 2006, Delphine Minoui was awarded the

prix Albert Londres The Albert Londres Prize is the highest French journalism award, named in honor of journalist Albert Londres. Created in 1932, it was first awarded in 1933 and is considered the French equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. Three laureates are award ...

for a series of articles on Iraq and Iran. She recently wrote about

Nojoud Ali Nujood Ali ( ar, نجود علي) (born 1998) is a central figure in Yemen's movement against forced marriage and child marriage. At the age of ten, she obtained a divorce, breaking with the tribal tradition. In November 2008, the U.S. women's ...

, the first little girl to get divorced in Yemen.

Bibliography

*2010: *2007: *2009: *2009: Ali, Nojoud; Minoui, Delphine. ''Moi, Nojoud, 10 ans, divorcée'' (in French). Paris: Michel Lafon. p. 286. **2010: Ali, Nojoud; Minoui, Delphine. ''I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced'' (in English, trans. Linda Coverdale). New York: Crown Publishing Group / Three Rivers Press. p. 188. . *2005: *2015: **2019: ''I'm Writing You from Tehran'' (in English, trans. Emma Ramadan). New York:

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger Williams Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar. FSG is known for publishing literary books, and its authors have won numerous awards, including Pulitzer ...

. p. 320. . *2017: ''Les passeurs de livres de Daraya: Une bibliothèque secrète en Syrie'' (in French). Paris: Seuil. p. 160. . **2020: ''The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War'' (in English, trans. Lara Vergnaud). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. p. 208. .

References

External links

*
Blog sur l'Iran
by Delphine Minoui on the official site of ''

le Figaro ''Le Figaro'' () is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It is headquartered on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. The oldest national newspaper in France, ''Le Figaro'' is one of three French newspapers of reco ...

''
''La lettre persane de Delphine Minoui''
on France Culture
''La lettre persane de Delphine Minoui''
on

France 24 France 24 ( in French) is a French state-owned international news television network based in Paris. Its channels broadcast in French, English, Arabic, and Spanish and are aimed at the overseas market. Based in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-M ...

''Je vous écris de Téhéran''
on Éditions du Seuil
''Pourquoi les femmes sont l'avenir de l'Iran''
on '' Paris Match'' (31 October 2016)
''Je vous écris de Téhéran'' : l’Iran entre les lignes
on ''

Libération ''Libération'' (), popularly known as ''Libé'' (), is a daily newspaper in France, founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968. Initially positioned on the far-left of France's ...

'' (23 March 2015)
''Delphine Minoui : La guignole de l'info''
on Iran Resist (25 December 2015) 1974 births Living people 21st-century French journalists French women journalists Albert Londres Prize recipients French expatriates in Iran French people of Iranian descent 21st-century French women Le Figaro people {{France-journalist-stub