The new york times thomas erdbrink biography
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“Our Man in Tehran,” a FRONTLINE Series with The New York Times’ Thomas Erdbrink, Gives a Rare and Revealing Look at Life in Iran
Our Man in Tehran
Monday, August 13, 2018, from 9-11 p.m. ET / 8-10 p.m. CT on PBS & online
Tuesday, August 14, 2018, from 9-11 p.m. ET / 8-10 p.m. CT on PBS & online
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This summer, as tensions rise between the United States and Iran, with threats of war and sanctions, FRONTLINE is presenting an unusual and surprising portrait of life inside the Islamic Republic.
For 17 years, Thomas Erdbrink has been covering front–page news from inside Iran. Now chief correspondent and Tehran bureau chief for The New York Times, he is one of the last Western journalists living in the country. Over the course of four years beginning in 2014, he was able to get permission to travel with a crew from Dutch television around the country, meeting people and hearing stories about their lives and hopes and fears, in one of the most isolated countries in the world.
Erdbrink’s rare and fascinating account comes to PBS on Monday, August 13, and Tuesday, August 14, when FRONTLINE pre
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Thomas Erdbrink
Dutch newswoman (born 1976)
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Personal life
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You might expect that an article about a group of adults standing naked in front of elementary school children would end with someone’s arrest.
In fact, it ended up on the cover of the Times Styles section, where it described an award-winning television show in Denmark that aimed to teach children to feel good about their bodies.
This was just one of a string of terrific articles written in recent months by our first Northern Europe bureau chief, Thomas Erdbrink.
Thomas needs little introduction. For nearly eight years, he was our resident Iran correspondent, where his deep knowledge and fluency in the language provided penetrating insights into a country that is largely opaque to the world. Whether covering the environmental catastrophe that is destroying the country’s famed pistachio crop and turning major lakes into salt flats; or how an economic crisis was altering people’s lives; or Iran’s deeply tangled politics, Thomas took readers on a wide-ranging and intimate look at life in Iran that few correspondents, if any, could match.
Thomas moved to Tehran in 2001, where he met his wife, the accomplished photographer Newsha Tavakolian. Before joining The Times, he worked there for The Washington Post and the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad. Then, in 2019, without explanat