Award-winning American journalist Shahrzad Elghanayan works at NBC News as a senior photo editor. Previously, she was at Bloomberg News and The Associated Press, where she was a supervisor on the national photo desk. Before her journalism career, she assisted with research at the human rights organization Freedom House. Her op-eds based on the research for "Titan of Tehran" have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and CNN.com. Born in Tehran and raised in Manhattan, she graduated from the Lycée Français and has a B.A. in political science from Columbia University. She lives in New York. REVIEWS FOR TITAN OF TEHRAN “An important testament to the hopes and disillusionment of Iran’s Jewish community.” “Elghanayan’s research is meticulous.” —The Washington Post “A portrait of Iran’s tumultuous history, viewed through the lens of one family’s tragedy, triumphs and joys.” —Vanity Fair, “9 Books We Couldn’t Put Down This Month,” Feb 2022 “Meticulously well-researched.” “A heartening act of love.” —The Jewish Journal “For her readers, she has given something larger, a sense of what the worldwide Jewish community lost when Iran fell.” “Impossible to stop reading.” —Jewish Book Council