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Ladane Nasseri

Ladane Nasseri is a journalist and writer living in New York City. She is a former Middle East correspondent for Bloomberg News where she headed Iran’s news coverage, and has reported from Tehran, Dubai, and Beirut. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Businessweek, Newsweek, The U.K.’s Telegraph, and France’s Liberation.

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