About Me

Omid Memarian is a journalist and blogger known for his news analysis, regular columns and blog. He writes for the IPS (Inter Press Service) News Agency and has published op-ed pieces in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The San Francisco Chronicle. He was chief researcher for Reese Erlich’s book entitled Iran Agenda: the Real Story of U.S. Policy and The Middle East Crisis.

A visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism in 2005-2006, he received the Human Rights Watch’s highest honor in 2005, the ‘Human Rights Defender Award’. Omid is currently a World Peace Fellow at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He can be reached at memarian@berkeley.edu