Journalist Deena Guzder

1. Journalist, Deena Guzder

Guzder has reported on human rights issues from Bangkok, Tehran, Mumbai, and beyond. She is the author of a forthcoming book, A Higher Calling, on progressive religious radicals for social justice, currently scheduled for release...

2. A Higher Calling (Chicago Review Press, 2010)

Thank you for visiting Guzder’s journalism portfolio. Guzder is updating this site infrequently since she is finishing her book manuscript: A Higher Calling (Chicago Review Press, 2010). She is busy writing, writing, writing.

3. Reporting in Iran

In 2007, Guzder received a grant from the Carnegie and Knight Foundations to travel to Iran as News 21’s foreign correspondent. Guzder reported from Tehran, Shiraz, Esfahan, Yazd, and Persepolis. Mark Glaser of PBS commented on her...

Short Videos

PLEASE NOTE: If you are on the “Browsing >> Multimedia” page, please click on individual red boxes for samples of work. Thank You. Local Thai NGOs Discuss Efforts to End Commercial...

Audio Slideshow

Please visit the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting for more information on this project Also, listen to Guzder’s radio interview on ”Bread and Roses”, KBOO 90.7 FM Community Radio,...

Radio Shorts

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO LISTEN: Radio Interview with Iraqi Journalist Ayub Nuri PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE ACCOMPANYING PRINT ARTICLE: Iraqi Jounalist Gets a Year at Columbia University (Arab...

About Guzder

Welcome to the official website of journalist Deena Guzder. In May 2008, Guzder was the youngest student to complete a dual-degree from Columbia University’s School of Journalism and School of International & Public Affairs. As a freelance reporter, her articles have appeared in Mother Jones, United Press International, TIME Magazine, National Geographic Traveler, Indian Express, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Washington Blade, Chicago Tribune (Red Eye), New York Times (syndicate), Journal of International Affairs, Black Star News, Providence Journal, Nonviolence in the News, Arab American, Chronicle-Herald, AdBusters Magazine, Payvand Iran News, Global Exchange News, Indian American Magazine, New York Blade, Worcester Telegram & Gazette News, Arizona Central, The New York Resident, Common Dreams, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Anchorage Daily News, CounterPunch, IRIN (United Nations) Panache, and elsewhere. Guzder currently lives in New York City; she is freelancing for several publications and finishing her literary nonfiction book.