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EPISODE · Dec 7, 2025 · 1H 51M

Nilo Tabrizy

from Books on the Bed · host Matt Sawyer

This week we visit with Nilo Tabrizy in Brooklyn, New York. Nilo Tabrizy is the co-author (with Fatemeh Jamalpour) of For the Sun After Long Nights, a moving exploration of the 2022 women-led protests in Iran, as told through the interwoven stories of two Iranian journalists. She is an investigative reporter at The Washington Post working for the visual forensics team, where she covers Iran using open-source methods. Previously, she was a video journalist at The New York Times, covering Iran, race and policing, abortion access, and more. She is an Emmy nominee and the 2022 winner of the Front Page Award for Online Investigative Reporting. She received an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University and a B.A. in political science and French from the University of British Columbia. For more on Nilo: ntabrizy.com Nilo's Books on the Bed: Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Women's Voices from Kurdistan: A Selection of Kurdish Poetry (edited by Farangis Ghaderi, Clémence Scalbert Yücel, Yaser Hassan Ali) Puerto Rico: A National History by Jorell Meléndez-Badillo An Anthology of the Experiences of Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Victims (Third Collection) by Hiroshima Association for the Success of the Atomic Bomb Exhibition Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg (must-read afterword by Peg Boyers!) They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents by Neda Toloui-Semnani Matt's Gifts for Nilo: As Seeds We Grow: Student Reflections on Resilience (edited by Elise Boulanger) Heating the Outdoors and Between the Moments: Canadian Aboriginal Voices by Marie-Andrée Gill Daughters of Palestine by Leyla K. King      

This week we visit with Nilo Tabrizy in Brooklyn, New York. Nilo Tabrizy is the co-author (with Fatemeh Jamalpour) of For the Sun After Long Nights, a moving exploration of the 2022 women-led protests in Iran, as told through the interwoven stories of two Iranian journalists. She is an investigative reporter at The Washington Post working for the visual forensics team, where she covers Iran using open-source methods. Previously, she was a video journalist at The New York Times, covering Iran, race and policing, abortion access, and more. She is an Emmy nominee and the 2022 winner of the Front Page Award for Online Investigative Reporting. She received an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University and a B.A. in political science and French from the University of British Columbia. For more on Nilo: ntabrizy.com Nilo's Books on the Bed: Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Women's Voices from Kurdistan: A Selection of Kurdish Poetry (edited by Farangis Ghaderi, Clémence Scalbert Yücel, Yaser Hassan Ali) Puerto Rico: A National History by Jorell Meléndez-Badillo An Anthology of the Experiences of Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Victims (Third Collection) by Hiroshima Association for the Success of the Atomic Bomb Exhibition Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg (must-read afterword by Peg Boyers!) They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents by Neda Toloui-Semnani Matt's Gifts for Nilo: As Seeds We Grow: Student Reflections on Resilience (edited by Elise Boulanger) Heating the Outdoors and Between the Moments: Canadian Aboriginal Voices by Marie-Andrée Gill Daughters of Palestine by Leyla K. King

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