Zahra Nader

Zahra Nader is an Afghan journalist and the editor-in-chief of Zan Times, an award-winning newsroom in exile that reports on human rights violations in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. She leads a team of mostly women journalists, both inside the country and in exile. In 2024, Zan Times received a Human Rights Press Award for its reporting on the alarming rise in suicides among young Afghan women. She was a 2024–2025 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan and holds a Master’s degree in Communication and Culture from York University in Toronto, where she is pursuing a Ph.D. in Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies.