Delphine Minoui (born 1974) is a French journalist specializing in the

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

ian world.

Life

She majored in journalism at the

CELSA Paris CELSA Sorbonne University, or the École des hautes études en sciences de l'information et de la communication, is a French communication and journalism school (''grande école'') located in the West of Paris, (Neuilly-sur-Seine) and is part of ...

in 1997, then graduated from the

EHESS The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (, EHESS) is a graduate ''grande école'' and '' grand établissement'' in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences. The school awards Master and PhD degrees alone and conjo ...

in 1999. Delphine Minoui moved to Iran to practice her profession. A correspondent of

France Inter France Inter () is a French public radio channel and part of Radio France. It is the successor to Paris Inter, later known as France I, and created as a merger of the France I and France II networks, first as RTF Inter in October 1963, then ren ...

and

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from 1999, she collaborated from 2002 with ''

Le Figaro () is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It was named after Figaro, a character in several plays by polymath Pierre Beaumarchais, Beaumarchais (1732–1799): ''Le Barbier de Séville'', ''The Guilty Mother, La Mère coupable'', ...

''. She has also directed and collaborated on several documentaries. In 2006, Delphine Minoui was awarded the prix Albert Londres for a series of articles on Iraq and Iran. She recently wrote about Nojoud Ali, the first little girl to get divorced in Yemen.

Bibliography

*2010: *2007: *2009: *2009: Ali, Nojoud; Minoui, Delphine. ''Moi, Nojoud, 10 ans, divorcée'' (in French). Paris: Michel Lafon. p. 286. **2010: Ali, Nojoud; Minoui, Delphine. ''I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced'' (in English, trans. Linda Coverdale). New York: Crown Publishing Group / Three Rivers Press. p. 188. . *2005: *2015: **2019: ''I'm Writing You from Tehran'' (in English, trans. Emma Ramadan). New York:

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger Williams Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar. FSG is known for publishing literary books, and its authors have won numerous awards, including Pulitzer P ...

. p. 320. . *2017: ''Les passeurs de livres de Daraya: Une bibliothèque secrète en Syrie'' (in French). Paris: Seuil. p. 160. . **2020: ''The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War'' (in English, trans. Lara Vergnaud). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. p. 208. .

References

External links

*
Blog sur l'Iran
by Delphine Minoui on the official site of ''

le Figaro () is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It was named after Figaro, a character in several plays by polymath Pierre Beaumarchais, Beaumarchais (1732–1799): ''Le Barbier de Séville'', ''The Guilty Mother, La Mère coupable'', ...

''
''La lettre persane de Delphine Minoui''
on

France Culture France Culture () is a French public radio channel and part of Radio France Radio France () is the French national public radio broadcaster. Stations Radio France offers seven national networks: *France Inter — Radio France's "generalist ...

''La lettre persane de Delphine Minoui''
on

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''Je vous écris de Téhéran''
on

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''Pourquoi les femmes sont l'avenir de l'Iran''
on ''

Paris Match ''Paris Match'' () is a French-language weekly gossip magazine. It covers major national and international news along with celebrity lifestyle features. ''Paris Match'' has been considered "one of the world's best outlets for photojournalism". ...

'' (31 October 2016)
''Je vous écris de Téhéran'' : l’Iran entre les lignes
on ''

Libération (), popularly known as ''Libé'' (), is a daily newspaper in France, founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968 in France, May 1968. Initially positioned on the far left of Fr ...

'' (23 March 2015)
''Delphine Minoui : La guignole de l'info''
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