Rozina Ali
¹ú²úÊÓƵ Fellow, 2024
Rozina Ali, National Fellow, is a journalist whose work focuses on the Middle East and South Asia, the War on Terror, immigration, and Islamophobia. Ali also writes about literature and poetry. She is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine, and was previously on the editorial staff at the New Yorker and a senior editor at the Cairo Review of Global Affairs, based in Egypt. In 2022–2023, she was a fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Foreign Affairs, the Nation, and ±á²¹°ù±è±ð°ù’s, among other outlets. She is the winner of the 2023 National Magazine Award in reporting.
Ali is currently writing a book about the recent history of Islamophobia in the United States.
Selected Work
- : An article from the New York Times Magazine about the U.S. Marine who kidnapped a baby girl orphaned in Afghanistan, and her family’s fight to get her back.
- A piece for the New Yorker on the events following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, in which a U.S. organization shut down the country’s largest network of women’s shelters.
- An article for the New York Times Magazine telling the story of a young Muslim man in New York who was entrapped by an NYPD informant, and sent to jail for thirty years.
- An essay review for the American Prospect about two recent books that take stock of the U.S. War on Terror.
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