Iason Athanasiadis is a writer, photographer, political analyst, and television producer who has contributed to a range of media, including the
BBC,
Al Jazeera English
Al Jazeera English (AJE; ar, الجزيرة, translit=al-jazīrah, , literally "The Peninsula", referring to the Qatar Peninsula) is an international 24-hour English-language news channel owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network, which is own ...
, and Channel 4.
He specializes in the
Middle East.
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A graduate of
Oxford University, Iason has written for the
Christian Science Monitor, the
Financial Times, the
International Herald Tribune
The ''International Herald Tribune'' (''IHT'') was a daily English-language newspaper published in Paris, France for international English-speaking readers. It had the aim of becoming "the world's first global newspaper" and could fairly be said ...
, the
Sunday Telegraph
''The Sunday Telegraph'' is a British broadsheet newspaper, founded in February 1961 and published by the Telegraph Media Group, a division of Press Holdings.
It is the sister paper of ''The Daily Telegraph
''The Daily Telegraph'', kn ...
,
The Guardian, the
Toronto Star
The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. The newspaper is the country's largest daily newspaper by circulation. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and part ...
, the Spectator, Newsweek, the
Washington Times, the
Athens News, and Australia's leading current affairs magazine
The Diplomat.
He was a
Nieman Fellow at
Harvard University from 2007 to 2008.
He was detained in Tehran on 17 June 2009, in the course of his reporting on the
disputed Iranian elections. No details of his alleged crime were released and no charges were made public. He was released after twenty days of incarceration on 6 July 2009.
Iason holds a master's degree from the
Tehran School of International Relations.
See also
*
List of foreign nationals detained in Iran
Since the Iran hostage crisis, the Islamic Republic of Iran has engaged in a pattern of detaining foreign nationals for extended periods. Dual nationals of Iran and another country are particularly vulnerable to arbitrary detention because the int ...
References
External links
Iason Athanasiadis's personal website
* ttp://www.journalisted.com/iason-athanasiadis Journalisted - Articles by Iason Athanasiadisbr>Global Greeks - Media
Nieman Fellows
Harvard University faculty
Living people
Greek male journalists
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Year of birth missing (living people)
Harvard University alumni
21st-century Greek journalists
Foreign nationals detained in Iran
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