Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Explained

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
Birth Date:19 July 1986
Birth Place:Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Education:Columbia University (BA)
Occupation:Journalist

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian (Persian: آتوسا آبراهامیان) is a New York-based journalist and a senior editor of The Nation.[1] Abrahamian is also the author of the 2015 non-fiction book The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen.[2]

Life and career

Abrahamian was born in Canada and grew up in Switzerland. Her parents, who are Iranians of Armenian and Russian descent, worked for the United Nations.[3] She holds Swiss, Canadian and Iranian citizenship[4] and speaks English, French, and Russian.[4]

Abrahamian is an alumna of the International School of Geneva. She earned an undergraduate degree in philosophy from Columbia College in 2008. She then earned her master's degree at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.[5]

She began her career as a business journalist for Thomson Reuters. Abrahamian later served as editor for the magazine The New Inquiry and Dissent. She also worked as an opinion editor for Al Jazeera America.[6] In 2018, she was named a senior editor of The Nation.[7]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Masthead. 24 March 2010. thenation.com. 7 January 2019.
  2. News: Frere-Jones. Sasha. When citizenship can be bought and sold: Atossa Araxia Abrahamian talks to Sasha Frere-Jones. Los Angeles Times. January 2, 2016.
  3. News: Majumdar. Megha. The Rumpus Interview with Atossa Araxia Abrahamian. The Rumpus. December 11, 2015.
  4. News: Atossa Araxia Abrahamian. Green Card Lottery. The New York Times. August 17, 2012.
  5. Web site: 2011 Stabile Alumni. Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism.. 2018-05-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20120306224743/http://stabilecenter.org/?page_id=1088. 2012-03-06. dead.
  6. News: Ashbrook. Tom. Citizenship, For Sale. WBUR. November 11, 2015.
  7. News: 'The Nation' Names Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Senior Editor. The Nation. May 11, 2016. May 12, 2018. September 5, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180905111624/https://www.thenation.com/article/the-nation-names-atossa-araxia-abrahamian-senior-editor/. dead.