Kamiran Sadoun
Kamiran Sadoun is a Kurt Schork Prize-winning Kurdish journalist, researcher and fixer with extensive expertise in conducting research in conflict and post-conflict areas in Iraq and Syria.
Over the years, he has collaborated with renowned international media outlets, such as NPR, LA Times, The Independent, de Volkskrant, The Telegraph, The Washington Post, ABC News, The New York Times. In addition to his proficiency in his native language, Kurdish, Kamiran is also fluent in English and Arabic and has a good command of Dutch.
Would you like to get in touch with Kamiran? If so, please email redactie@rfgmedia.nl.
Work experience
Head of the Office for Monitoring and Documenting Violations against Journalists at the Syrian Kurdish Journalists Network (SKJN) (volunteering)
Freelance writer and local correspondent for the Los Angeles Times
Local producer for ABC NEWS
Senior Liaison Officer at Northeast Syria NGO Forum (Mercy Corps))
Stringer at NPR (National Public Radio) for northern Iraq and northern Syria
Training
BA English Language and Literature
Damascus University, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Expertise
Kamiran specialises in conflict journalism. He has extensive reporting experience, particularly in Iraq and Syria. He also has extensive experience and knowledge of Kurdish issues, security, local dynamics and human rights issues.
Stories
A Syrian Kurd without an identity: a Syrian for just seven months, and 46 years searching for a homeland
‘We can be part of the solution rather than the problem’
‘They say I can clean in a supermarket. But I'm an engineer’
Podcast - Increasingly a prison
Increasingly a prison
Independent journalism in Syria is almost impossible
