Fariba Nawa

Fariba Nawa was selected for the 2021 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘Sisters of Europe.’

Fariba Nawa has been covering global news for 20 years from places like Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan and now Turkey. She is also a speaker and author of critically-acclaimed Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords and One Woman’s Journey through Afghanistan. She reports for NPR, PRI’s The World, the New Yorker, Financial Times, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, among others. A native Afghan, Fariba is fluent in Farsi/Dari and can get by in Arabic and Turkish.

Özge Sebzeci

Özge Sebzeci was selected for the 2021 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘Sisters of Europe.’

Born next to the Bosphorus, Özge Sebzeci is a freelance photographer and reporter from Turkey. She studied international relations at Galatasaray University where she decided to approach major stories from a human rights perspective. She aims to explore underreported stories, focusing on gender and migration with an intimate approach. Her reporting and photography has revealed a seldom-seen Turkey and has recently caught the eye of the Magnum Foundation, which awarded her a fellowship. Her work has been published in National Geographic, The Huffington Post, News Deeply, Norwegian VG, Dutch NRC Handelsblad newspapers and Ms Magazine among others.