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'''Babak Dehghanpisheh''' is a Senior Reporter with Reuters covering the Middle East. He was formerly ''[[Newsweek]]'' magazine's [[Baghdad]] Bureau Chief and Beirut Bureau Chief and covered Syria for The Washington Post.  In Iraq, Dehghanpisheh reported on events ranging from [[Saddam Hussein]]'s capture to the rise of [[Shiite]] clerics and Iraq's first elections. He was embedded with one of the first [[Marine (military)|Marine units]] that invaded [[Falluja]] in late 2004 and was also one of the few [[journalist]]s who got inside [[Abu Ghraib prison]] shortly after the scandal broke.

Before going to Iraq, Dehghanpisheh reported extensively on America's [[war on terror]]. He was one block away from the north tower of the [[World Trade Center (1973-2001)|World Trade Center]] when it collapsed and was dispatched to [[Afghanistan]] a few weeks later. He spent the next year reporting from Afghanistan and [[Pakistan]], tracing the steps of [[Al Qaeda]] fighters in [[Tora Bora]] and following the development of the new Afghan government.
 
In the past six years, Dehghanpisheh has frequently reported from [[Iran]] and he co-authored a cover-length profile of Iranian president [[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]]. Dehghanpisheh has also reported from [[Syria]], [[Egypt]], [[Jordan]] and [[Lebanon]], where he filed from the front lines with [[Hezbollah]] [[guerrilla warfare|guerrillas]] during the war with Israel in summer 2006.

Dehghanpisheh has won numerous awards for his reportage. In 2014, he shared the [[Gerald Loeb Award]] for Explanatory business journalism.<ref>{{cite web|title=UCLA Anderson School of Management Announces 2014 Gerald Loeb Award Winners|url=http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/media-relations/2014/2014-gerald-loeb-awards|website=[[UCLA Anderson School of Management]]|date=June 24, 2014|access-date=January 31, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190201120336/http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/media-relations/2014/2014-gerald-loeb-awards|archive-date=February 1, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2003 he was a finalist for the [[Livingston Award]] for Young Journalists for his Iraq coverage.

In the fall of 2002, Dehghanpisheh was the lead reporter for ''"The War Crimes of Afghanistan,"'' which won a [[National Headliner Award]] and was a finalist for the [[National Magazine Award]] for public service.

Dehghanpisheh also won the [[Society of Publishers]] in Asia's Young Journalist Award in 2003 for his Afghanistan coverage.

Dehghanpisheh first worked for Newsweek as a [[freelancer]] in the [[Johannesburg]] bureau of the magazine. He returned to Newsweek as an intern in the [[New York City]] bureau in the summer of 2001. Since then, he has worked on more than 25 Newsweek cover stories. Dehghanpisheh also contributed to the war coverage which garnered Newsweek a 2004 National Magazine Award for General Excellence. He has appeared regularly on [[CNN]], [[MSNBC]], [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] and [[NPR]].

Dehghanpisheh, born to an Iranian father and American mother, has a [[bachelor's degree]] in business and an [[M.M.C.]] in journalism from [[Arizona State University]]. He has been awarded a [[Knight Fellowship]] at [[Stanford University]] for the year 2008–2009.

In 2014, he received the Investigative Reporting Award from the [[European Press Prize]] alongside Steve Stecklow and Yaganeh Torbati for their investigative report "Assets of the Ayatollah", published by Reuters.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Assets of the Ayatollah|url=https://www.europeanpressprize.com/article/the-assets-of-the-ayatollah/|website=European Press Prize|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref>

==References==
* [http://www.newsweek.com/authors/babak-dehghanpisheh.html ''Newsweek'' bio]
* [http://knight.stanford.edu/fellows/2009/dehghanpisheh/ Stanford bio]
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