Nahal Toosi

Nahal Toosi is an American journalist and currently foreign affairs correspondent for Politico, who in 2011 was one of the first reporters to reach Abbottabad, Pakistan, after the death of Osama bin Laden and in 2018 covered the Rohingya refugee crisis.[1][2]

Nahal Toosi
Born
Tehran, Iran
CitizenshipAmerican
EducationUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (BA)
OccupationJournalist
Years active2000–present
EmployerPolitico

Background

Nahal Toosi was born in Tehran, Iran. Her family immigrated to the United States when she was six years old. She graduated valedictorian from McKinney High School in McKinney, Texas. In 2000, she received a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she reported and edited for the student-run The Daily Tar Heel.[3]

Career

Toosi worked for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on topics from higher education to foreign correspondence from Iraq (including the US invasion in 2003), Egypt, Thailand, and Germany. In 2005, she joined the Associated Press, where she was both reporter and editor based in: New York, Islamabad, Kabul, and London. In 2011, she was one of the first foreign correspondents to reach Abbottabad, Pakistan, after the killing of Osama bin Laden. In 2013, she joined Politico, where she is now foreign affairs correspondent.[1][3][4]

She has contributed to Rohingya Crisis project at the Pulitzer Center.[2] She has spoken publicly at the College of William & Mary[5] and on news shows including: CBS News, WNYC,[6] WAMU,[7] KCRW,[8] and Wisconsin Public Radio.[9]

Works
  • Politico[4]
  • Associated Press (via Washington Examiner)[10]
  • Associated Press (via Daily Star)[11]

References
  1. "Nahal Toosi". Politico. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  2. "Nahal Toosi". Pulitzer Center. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  3. "The Need to Know" (PDF). Carolina Alumni Review. February 2012. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  4. "Archives for Nahal Toosi". Politico. 2019. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  5. "Pulitzer Center Journalist Nahal Toosi Campus Lecture". College of William & Mary. 2019. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  6. "Nahal Toosi appears in the following". WNYC. 2019. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  7. "Kurt Volker, U.S. Special Envoy To Ukraine, Resigns". WAMU. 27 September 2019. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  8. "Ambassador Gordon Sondland's testimony: Everyone was 'in the loop'". KCRW. 20 November 2019. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  9. Larsen, J. Carlisle (16 May 2017). "Source Claims President Trump Shared Classified Information With Russian Diplomats During White House Meeting". Wisconsin Public Radio. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  10. "Nahal Toosi". Washington Examiner. 2019. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  11. "Nahal Toosi". Washington Examiner. 2019. Retrieved 25 December 2019.

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