Saba Farzan was born in Teheran and raised in Germany. She writes as a journalist for major German, Austrian and Swiss newspapers as well as the European edition of the Wall Street Journal. She is founder and editor of The Transatlantic Perspective. Her area of expertise is the Iranian civil society, Iran and USA as well as German and European Iran policy. She further focuses in her publications on integration and immigration in Germany. She holds a Master’s degree from the University of Bayreuth in Theater Studies, American Literature and Sociology with research stays at the Kurt Weill Foundation in New York City and Yale University. Beyond her writings she does focus also on political consultancy and from January until June 2011 she has consulted an international human rights organization in Geneva and Brussels.

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