Ramita Navai is an award-winning British-Iranian foreign affairs journalist, documentary maker and author.
After starting her career as the Tehran correspondent for The Times, she joined Channel 4’s acclaimed foreign affairs documentary series Unreported World. Her investigations included blood diamonds in Zimbabwe, war in South Sudan, sex trafficking in Mexico, gang assassins in El Salvador, and the war in Syria, for which she won an Emmy award.
Her feature for Channel 4 News on refugee kidnapping gangs in Europe resulted in the Macedonian police arresting 15 people traffickers and rescuing nearly 200 kidnapped refugees. It won FPA News Story of the Year and a Royal Television Society award.
Since 2016, Ramita has been making investigative documentaries for Channel 4, Frontline PBS and ITV, about subjects including the war against ISIS, militias in Iraq, UN peacekeepers raping with impunity, and the political cover-up of rapes in India.
She reported and executive produced No Country for Women for ITV / PBS Frontline (2023), for which she filmed undercover in a women’s prison. It won an Emmy, a Columbia Dupont, a Grierson, a Rose d’Or Award and an Overseas Press Club of America Award.
More recently she reported and executive produced Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, a forensic investigation into Israel’s targeted attacks on Gaza’s healthcare system and Palestinian doctors.
Her first book City of Lies: Love, Sex and the Search for Truth in Tehran won the Debut Political Book Award, and the Royal Society of Literature’s Jerwood Prize for non-fiction. It has been translated into six languages.
She is a contributing author to Shifting Sands: The Unravelling of the Old Order in the Middle East (edited by Raja Shehadeh).
Ramita is the creator and host of The Line of Fire, a podcast about the moment of facing death.
In 2022, Ramita was the recipient of the Women in Film and TV Award recognising outstanding achievement by a woman in news.
