Amanpour at the Crossroads

As a British-Iranian woman, Amanpour’s identity has often played a role in her reporting, particularly in the Middle East. Her fluency in Farsi and her cultural intuition have allowed her to peel back layers of complexity in regions often misunderstood by Western media. In 2022, she famously canceled an interview with the late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi when he demanded she wear a headscarf, a move that was widely praised as a stand for journalistic independence and women's rights on the international stage.