Fellows & Editors
Liana Aghajanian
- Trip:
- Fellows 2015
- Affiliation:
- Freelance
- Country:
- Mongolia
- Year:
- 2015
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Liana Aghajanian is a freelance journalist based between Southern California and the United Kingdom with an interest in issues, people and places on the fringes of society. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, BBC, Al Jazeera America and Los Angeles magazine, among other publications. She authors “Intersections,” a column for L.A Times Community News that centers arounds immigration, displacement and identity and edits Ianyan magazine, an independent online publication about Armenia and occasionally the Greater Middle East. She has reported from Kenya, UK, the South Caucasus as well as across the West Coast in the U.S. and received support from the Metlife Foundation Journalists in Aging Fellowship and the California Health Journalism Fellowship.
Aghajanian was awarded a prior fellowship with IRP, reporting from Germany in 2013.
Stories
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Fighting to Breathe in Mongolia
It’s September, the morning after the first snowfall of the season, and Otgontuuya already knows that winter will be brutal. She sits on a pink plastic chair in her living...
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Hidden Treasures of a Remote Record Shop
Batbold Bavuu began collecting records by accident 10 years ago, rescuing them from rubbish bins at the music college where he was a student. Those discs formed the basis of his collection and...
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‘Our Second Mother’: Iran’s Converted Christians Find Sanctuary in Germany
{image-1} On a breezy Sunday morning, 17 Christian converts are being baptized into a Berlin congregation just in time for Christmas. The yellow, stained-glass windows, situated high enough to catch the sun&rsquo...;
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Iran’s Oppressed Christians
I met Mori in the basement of a Lutheran church in Berlin’s Zehlendorf district. A 28-year-old refugee who once ran a small business in Iran, he converted to Christianity five...
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