Emran Feroz

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Emran Feroz (born 1991 in Innsbruck) [1] is an Austrian-Afghan journalist and author.

Feroz' parents fled to Austria because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He studied political science and Islamic studies at the University of Tübingen. [2] [3] He works as a freelance journalist for media such as Die Zeit, Die Tageszeitung, Al Jazeera and The New York Times. His focus are Afghanistan and drone strikes by the US. Feroz founded the virtual memorial site Drone Memorial for civilian victims of drone strikes, also because he lost own family due to drone strikes. [4] In the course of the 2021 Taliban offensive and the removal of US troops from Afghanistan, he was interviewed as an expert by many German-speaking and international media, including CNN. [5] [6] [7] His book Der längste Krieg ("The longest war"), which was published in 2021 during the time of the Taliban offensive, became a bestseller in Germany. [8]

In 2021, he was awarded with the Concordia Award for human rights journalism for a report about an asylum seeker that he did for the Austrian magazine Profil. [1]

In June 2024, in an interview with the Die Zeit newspaper, Feroz advocated to exempt potential deportations to Afghanistan. [9]

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  5. "Experte Emran Feroz: "Die Taliban geben sich gerne kosmopolitisch"" (in Austrian German). Retrieved 2021-09-03.
  6. "Afghanistan - Was geht gerade verloren?" (in German). Retrieved 2021-09-03.
  7. (in German) https://twitter.com/emran_feroz/status/1429860808494833671 . Retrieved 2021-09-03.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. "Aktuelle Boersenblatt-Bestsellerliste Sachbuch Bestseller Paperback | Börsenblatt" (in German). Retrieved 2021-09-03.
  9. ""Man würde mit solchen Abschiebungen die eigenen Werte verraten"" (in German). Retrieved 2024-06-12.