Ramita Navai is an award-winning foreign affairs journalist, documentary maker and author who has reported from over 45 countries.
After starting her career as the Tehran correspondent for The Times, she joined Channel 4’s acclaimed documentary series Unreported World. Her investigations included the war in South Sudan, blood diamonds in Zimbabwe, sex trafficking in Mexico, gang assassins in El Salvador, and the war in Syria.
Her feature for Channel 4 News on refugee kidnapping gangs in Europe resulted in the arrest of 15 people-traffickers and the rescue of nearly 200 kidnapped refugees. It won FPA News Story of the Year and a Royal Television Society award.
Her investigative documentaries on the war against ISIS, Shia militias in Iraq, sexual abuse among UN peacekeepers, corruption and rape in India and women’s rights in Afghanistan have won many awards, including two Emmys and two Robert F. Kennedy awards. Her latest documentary is Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, which won a BAFTA for best current affairs documentary.
Her book City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran won the Debut Political Book and was awarded the Royal Society of Literature’s Jerwood Prize for non-fiction. It has been translated into six languages. She is a contributing author to Shifting Sands: The Unravelling of the Old Order in the Middle East, edited by Raja Shehadeh.
She is the creator and host of THE LINE OF FIRE, a top 10 Apple podcast about the moment of facing death.
