Holly Dagres

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Holly Dagres
Born
Los Angeles, California
Alma mater University of California, Los Angeles
American University in Cairo
Occupations Analyst
Commentator
Website Official website

Holly Dagres (Los Angeles, California) is an Iranian-American analyst and commentator on the Middle East with a focus on Iran. [1] [2] She is a nonresident senior fellow at the Washington-based think tank, the Atlantic Council. [3] She is also editor of the IranSource blog and the curator for the weekly newsletter, The Iranist. [4] [5]

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Early life and education

Dagres was born in Los Angeles to an Iranian immigrant mother and an American father. In 1999, she moved to Tehran, Iran. Dagres spent her teenage years in Iran, from 1999 to 2006, during which time she graduated from Tehran International School. [6] [7] [8] Dagres received her bachelor's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and her master's degree from the American University in Cairo. [9]

Career

Early in Dagres' career, she communicated extensively through social media; in 2015, Your Middle East called Dagres one of the "must follow" Instagram users of the Middle East. [10] [ dead link ] Her Instagram account was called one of the "8 stunning Instagram accounts that shed light on the real Iran" by Elan Magazine. [11] It was also featured by Al Jazeera English's "Stream of the Week" as a glimpse into Iran. [12]

As of May 2017, Dagres was a contributing editor at the Cairo Review of Global Affairs. [13] Also as of May 2017, Dagres work had appeared, per her personal declaration, in numerous publications including Al Jazeera, Al-Monitor, Buzzfeed, Foreign Policy, the Huffington Post, and Voice of America.[ citation needed ]

In fall of 2017, Dagres posted a photo of her late Iranian grandmother with hashtag #GrandparentsNotTerrorists[ citation needed ] to show solidarity with opponents of U.S. President Donald Trump's Executive Order 13769, also known as the Muslim Ban; after it went viral, she and a friend started the 'Banned Grandmas' Instagram account to remind Americans that the ban is ongoing and continues to affect American families. [14] [15]

As of 2018,[ citation needed ] and continuing at least through about the first week of December 2024, Dagres worked with the Washington-based think tank, the Atlantic Council, working with its Rafik Hariri Center and Middle East programs, and as "a nonresident senior fellow specializing in Iranian affairs, the editor of the... Programs’ IranSource and MENASource publications, and the curator for the weekly newsletter, The Iranist". [16] [17] [ better source needed ] As of December 2024, Dagres regularly conducted interviews for print, radio, and television, including for the BBC News, Bloomberg, CNN, NBC News, and NPR, [16] [ better source needed ] and "[h]er work on Iran" has otherwise appeared "in numerous publications, including Foreign Policy, [The] Guardian, The New York Times, TIME, and [T]he Washington Post". [16] [ better source needed ]

As of February 2026, Dagres was appearing as "the Libitzky Family Senior Fellow in The Washington Institute's Viterbi Program on Iran and U.S. Policy". [17] [ better source needed ]

Personal life

In 2009, Dagres entered the Miss California USA 2010 beauty pageant as Miss Northridge. [18]

References

  1. ↑ "About Holly Dagres". Al-Monitor. Archived from the original on October 14, 2017. Retrieved June 3, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Interview with Holly Dagres - UCLA (June 15, 2011)". Pars Times. Archived from the original on April 23, 2016. Retrieved May 20, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Holly Dagres". Atlantic Council. Archived from the original on September 24, 2019. Retrieved September 24, 2019.
  4. ↑ "Who are we?". The Iranist. Archived from the original on October 14, 2017. Retrieved June 3, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Iranian-American, Holly Dagres, Gives Insight on U.S.-MENA Foreign Policy and Building Dialogue". Middle East Collective. Retrieved May 26, 2017.
  6. ↑ Castro, Tony (March 20, 2008). "For the children of Iranians, a new year, a unique outlook". LA Daily News. Archived from the original on September 3, 2024. Retrieved May 23, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Interview: Foreign Political Analyst, Holly Dagres". LAexcites Radio Station. Archived from the original on October 14, 2017. Retrieved May 18, 2017.
  8. ↑ Dagres, Holly. "An American in Tehran". Cairo Review of Global Affairs. Archived from the original on February 28, 2017. Retrieved June 1, 2017.
  9. ↑ Dagres, Holly. "Memories of Tehran International School". Your Middle East. Archived from the original on September 4, 2015. Retrieved June 3, 2017.
  10. ↑ Illugadóttir, Vera. "You've gotta follow these Instagrammers in the Middle East". Your Middle East. Retrieved June 3, 2017.[ dead link ]
  11. ↑ "8 stunning Instagram accounts that shed light on the real Iran". Elan Magazine. July 3, 2015. Archived from the original on September 3, 2024. Retrieved June 5, 2017.
  12. ↑ "A glimpse into Iran on Instagram". Al Jazeera. October 25, 2013. Archived from the original on July 3, 2017. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  13. ↑ "Holly Dagres". Cairo Review of Global Affairs. Archived from the original on May 28, 2017. Retrieved June 3, 2017.
  14. ↑ Garcia, Patricia (July 11, 2017). "Banned Grandmas Shows Some of the Real Victims of Trump's Muslim Ban". Vogue. Archived from the original on October 14, 2017. Retrieved October 14, 2017.
  15. ↑ Hoffman, Ashley (July 6, 2017). "Meet the People Posting Photos of 'Banned Grandmas' to Protest the Travel Ban". Time. Archived from the original on September 7, 2017. Retrieved October 14, 2017.
  16. 1 2 3 Dagres, Holly & Atlantic Council Staff (December 14, 2024). "Holly Dagres". AtlanticCouncil.org. Washington, DC: Atlantic Council. Archived from the original (council fellow biosketch) on December 14, 2024. Retrieved February 25, 2026.[ independent source needed ] Between 10 and 14 December 2024, Dagres position descriptions shifted in their use of present to past tense verbs, indicating the end of her Atlantic Council affiliation.
  17. 1 2 Dagres, Holly & TWI Staff (February 25, 2026). "Holly Dagres—Libitzky Family Senior Fellow" (institute fellow biosketch). WashingtonInstitute.org. Washington, DC: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Retrieved February 25, 2026.[ independent source needed ]
  18. ↑ Castro, Tony (November 22, 2009). "From Tehran to Northridge to ... Miss California?". Los Angeles Daily News. Archived from the original on September 3, 2024. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
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