{"id":165,"name":"Omid Memarian","url":"http:\/\/www.omidmemarian.com","description":"Omid Memarian is well known for his news analysis and regular columns in English and Persian. Omid has been regularly writing for IPS since 2006. He is also a regular contributor to the Daily Beast and BBC Persian and regularly blogs for the Huffington Post. He has had op-ed pieces published in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Institute for War and Piece Reporting and Opendemocracy.org. In 2005, he received Human Rights Watch\u2019s highest honour, the Human Rights Defender Award, for his courageous work.\r\n\r\nOmid Memarian received his master\u2019s degree from the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism in 2009 as a Rotary World Peace Fellow. He was awarded the Golden Pen Award at the National Press Festival in Iran in 2002.","link":"https:\/\/www.ipsnews.net\/portuguese\/author\/omid-memarian\/","slug":"omid-memarian","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4ff3aeb098c8a4d39c018261d2dfe319502f411b5ba85456865e3162db1ad754?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4ff3aeb098c8a4d39c018261d2dfe319502f411b5ba85456865e3162db1ad754?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4ff3aeb098c8a4d39c018261d2dfe319502f411b5ba85456865e3162db1ad754?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipsnews.net\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipsnews.net\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}