Iranian-American writer and journalist (born 1985)
Sohrab Ahmari
Ahmari in 2023
Born
(1985-02-01) February 1, 1985 (age 39)
Tehran, Iran
Alma mater
Utah State University University of Washington (B.A.) Northeastern University (J.D.)
Occupation(s)
Journalist, editor, and writer
Employer(s)
Compact (2021–present) The New York Post (2018–2021) Commentary (2017–2018) The Wall Street Journal (2012–2017)
Spouse
Ting Li
(m. 2014)
Children
2
Sohrab Ahmari (Persian: سهراب احمری, romanized: Sohrāb Aḥmarī; born February 1, 1985)[1] is an Iranian-American columnist, editor, and author of nonfiction books. He is a founding editor of the online magazine Compact.[2] He is a contributing editor of The Catholic Herald, and a columnist for First Things. Previously, he served as the op-ed editor of the New York Post, an editor with The Wall Street Journal opinion pages in New York and London, and as a senior writer at Commentary.[3]
Ahmari is the author of The New Philistines (2016), a critique of how identity politics are corrupting the arts; From Fire, by Water (2019), a spiritual memoir about his conversion to Roman Catholicism; and The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos (2021).
^Ahmari, Sohrab (1 February 2019). "My Family's Iranian Revolution". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
^Schuessler, Jennifer (2022-03-22). "Two Religious Conservatives and a Marxist Walk Into a Journal". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-05.
SohrabAhmari (Persian: سهراب احمری, romanized: SohrābAḥmarī; born February 1, 1985) is an Iranian-American columnist, editor, and author of nonfiction...
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under-served students every day." Notable Teach For America alumni include: SohrabAhmari, Iranian-born American journalist Gregg Costa (Mississippi Delta '94)...
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and encouraging anti-Armenian sentiment. Iranian-American journalist SohrabAhmari has called Doran a "propagandist…cheering—an ongoing, current ethnic...
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editor for the Journal and its website. Bartley Fellows have included SohrabAhmari, Elisabeth Eaves, Joseph Malchow, Joseph Rago, Mira Sethi and Bari Weiss...
hard-line, totalitarian message about what Islam should look like." SohrabAhmari wrote in the Wall Street Journal that, thanks in part to Maher's efforts...
political messages while allowing that the stories are inventive. Reviewer SohrabAhmari argues that Saramago's literary imagination was permanently etched by...
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