POSTPONED – more details to follow – new on 9 May: SOLMAZ KHORSAND
Tuesday, 09. May 2023, 18:30 – 20:00 h
At the University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich, KOL-G-201 (Aula)
How does Iran threaten the players around it? What danger does the nuclear programme pose? How could the USA and Israel intervene? How does terror affect domestic politics? What are the future prospects for a successful civil society? What role do women play today? Natalie Amiri, the award-winning German-Iranian journalist, television presenter and author, will speak about these and other questions.
POSTPONED – more details to follow – new on 9 May: SOLMAZ KHORSAND
Natalie Amiri, born in Munich in 1978 to a German mother and an Iranian father, studied Oriental Studies and Islamic Studies at Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg. A scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service took her to the universities of Tehran and Damascus. She has been presenting the "ARD-Weltspiegel" programme from Munich since 2014. From 2015, Natalie Amiri headed the ARD bureau in Tehran. In May 2020, she was warned by the Federal Foreign Office not to travel to Iran any longer for security reasons. She was therefore forced to step down as head of the Tehran television studio.
In 2022 and 2024, she was named Political Journalist of the Year by "medium magazin" and has won numerous awards, including the "Glas der Vernunft" (2023). Her books "Zwischen den Welten" (2021), "Afghanistan" (2022) and "Der Nahost-Komplex" (2025) became SPIEGEL bestsellers.
Photo: © Johannes Moths