Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

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]

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
Born (1986-07-19) July 19, 1986
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
OccupationJournalist

Early life

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]

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References
  1. "Masthead". thenation.com. 24 March 2010. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
  2. Frere-Jones, Sasha (January 2, 2016). "When citizenship can be bought and sold: Atossa Araxia Abrahamian talks to Sasha Frere-Jones". Los Angeles Times.
  3. Majumdar, Megha (December 11, 2015). "The Rumpus Interview with Atossa Araxia Abrahamian". The Rumpus.
  4. Atossa Araxia Abrahamian (August 17, 2012). "Green Card Lottery". The New York Times.
  5. "2011 Stabile Alumni". Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism. Archived from the original on 2012-03-06. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  6. Ashbrook, Tom (November 11, 2015). "Citizenship, For Sale". WBUR.
  7. "'The Nation' Names Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Senior Editor". The Nation. May 11, 2016.
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