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Fariba Nawa

Fariba Nawa is an Istanbul-based journalist, speaker and author of "Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords and One Woman's Journey through Afghanistan."

Fariba Nawa is a journalist, speaker and author. She reports on various issues, including immigrant communities, human rights and the global drug trade. Her work has been published in numerous publications, including Women in the World/New York Times, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Daily Beast, Sunday Times Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle and Mother Jones. She's the author of Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords and One Woman's Journey through Afghanistan, a mix of memoir and reportage focused on women's roles in the world's biggest narcotics business. 

Episode 9: The Note

Lethal Dissent

Mohammad Shabani’s suicide note is analyzed by a handwriting expert and Fariba Nawa gets the results. She follows the ripple effects of the new information, and Mohammad’s best friend tries to make sense of what it means.

Episode 8: Officials

Lethal Dissent

Episode 7: Verdict

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Episode 6: Woman from the CIA

Lethal Dissent

Episode 5: Operatives

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Episode 4: The Fall

Lethal Dissent

In the city where the dissident Mohammad Shabani died, Fariba Nawa finds evidence that points toward his cause of death.

Episode 3: Losing Touch

Lethal Dissent

The death of poet Mohammad Shabani, an Iranian dissident living in Turkey, catches his friends, family, and supporters by surprise. Fariba finds one of Mohammad Shabani’s confidantes and learns new details about his life in exile before he died.

Episode 2: The Poet

Lethal Dissent

When two close friends who work for the Iranian government follow their conscience, it puts them at odds with the regime. Now, one of them is dead. To figure out what might have happened, reporter Fariba Nawa goes back to the beginning.

Episode 1: Prologue

Lethal Dissent

Reporter Fariba Nawa introduces her investigation into Iranian plots against exiles in Turkey. She tells the story of Iran’s history of violence against its citizens at home, and how that violence has grown to cross international borders today. The fate of a dissident in France becomes a blueprint for the questions she seeks to answer.

The funeral of Syrian anti-Assad activist Orouba Barakat, 62, and her daughter, American journalist Halla Barakat (pictured), 23. The pair were found stabbed to death in their apartment in Istanbul on Sept. 21, 2017.

An American journalist was murdered in Turkey. Why didn’t the US investigate?

Turkish authorities say Halla Barakat and Orouba Barakat were killed in a family dispute. Others suspect a targeted assassination.