Nazanine Moshiri

Nazanine Moshiri is one of our Roving Africa Correspondents based in Tunis.

For the past seven years Nazanine Moshiri has covered some of the most important stories for Al Jazeera English.

She has reported extensively from throughout Europe, Africa, as well as in Afghanistan and Iran.

Amongst her most important interviewees are the Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Hugo Chavez, Tony Blair, and Ali Akhbar Salehi, the current Iranian Foreign Minister.

More recently, Nazanine has reported from Central African Republic, as well as Mali, and from Goma in DR Congo when the rebel group known as M23 took control of the City.
She has spent a substantial amount of time in Somalia covering stories including the battle between African Union forces and Al Shabab, the famine, as well as Somalia’s election of a new President.

She was in Tunisia, as the Arab Spring began, and has reported extensively on the transition in the country.

Before joining Al Jazeera, Nazanine was a well-known face in Britain, reporting and presenting for ITV News. Nazanine was born in Tehran, her family moved to the UK in 1978, before the Islamic Revolution. She speaks Farsi, Italian and French. She has a Postgraduate in Journalism from the University of Westminster and a BA (hons) in Modern European Studies from University College London.