Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian is a New York-based journalist and a former senior editor of The Nation. Abrahamian is the author of the 2015 non-fiction book The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen.

Life and career Abrahamian was born in Canada and grew up in Switzerland. Her parents, who are Iranians of Armenian and Russian descent, worked for the United Nations. She holds United States , Swiss, Canadian, and Iranian citizenship and speaks English, French, and Russian.

She began her career as a business journalist for Thomson Reuters. Abrahamian later served as editor for the magazine The New Inquiry and Dissent. She also worked as an opinion editor for Al Jazeera America. From 2018, she was a senior editor of The Nation. and The New Yorker .

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