Mandy Taheri is a Newsweek reporter covering politics, international affairs, breaking news, and climate. As a freelance journalist she writes about arts and culture, often related to the Middle East and North Africa, with a specific focus on Iran and the Iranian American diaspora.

In May 2023, she graduated from NYU’s joint master’s program in Global Journalism and Near Eastern Studies. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University in 2019.

She has lived in Michigan, Vermont, Connecticut, Washington D.C., and New York City. She is proficient in French and is learning Persian.

Her work appears in Newsweek, The Brooklyn Rail, Interview Magazine, Hyperallergic, American Theatre, People Magazine, Pavement Pieces, and National Journal.

You can connect with her on X, Instagram, LinkedIn, and via email.

Selected Photographs

  • Cherry Blossoms during peak bloom (Washington D.C.)

  • Alhambra Palace (Granada, Spain)

  • Protest in solidarity with Mahsa Amini and against the Iranian government (Washington Square Park, NY)

  • Market stall in the Rabat Souk (Rabat, Morocco)

  • Autumn (Fairfield County)

  • Ruby, a three-year-old pygmy goat (Blue Hill, ME)

  • Vibrant flowers (Rabat, Morocco)

  • Boscobel House Garden (Cold Spring, NY)

  • Inside the Seville Cathedral’s Bell Tower (Seville, Spain)

  • Seville Alfalfa District (Seville, Spain)

  • Seville Cathedral (Seville, Spain)

  • Dahlias (Blue Hill, ME)

  • Rabat Medina (Rabat, Morocco)

  • Women eating catered Iranian food in a strangers apartment during the protest movement in Iran (New York City)

  • Hibiscus (Redding, CT)

  • Comuna 13 (Medellin, Colombia)

  • Wormsloe Historic Site (Savannah, Georgia)

  • Welcoming committee (Watertown, Maine)

  • Parthenon (Athens, Greece)

  • Greek Church (Kimolos, Greece)

  • Fatih Mosque (Istanbul, Turkey)