Sohrab Ahmari

Ahmari converted to Roman Catholicism in 2016. In late September 2016, he wrote a three-page article about his conversion in The Catholic Herald, which was the cover story of the September 30, 2016 issue.

During his tenure at The Journal, Ahmari also wrote numerous op-eds. Following the June 2013 election of Hassan Rouhani as president of Iran, Ahmari highlighted Rouhani's role in the violent crackdown on a 1999 pro-democracy student uprising as well as his anti-American rhetoric. For an op-ed on the November 2013 interim nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1, Ahmari secured an interview with Payam Fazlinejad, a senior writer and researcher at Kayhan, the state-run Iranian newspaper which is believed to reflect the views of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

Ahmari was born in Tehran, Iran. In his 2012 book, Arab Spring Dreams, he writes that he was interrogated by security officials about his parents and faced disciplinary action as a child for accidentally bringing a videocassette of Star Wars into school at a time when Western films were officially banned in the country. In 1998, at the age of 13, Ahmari moved with his family to the United States.

After serving as a Robert L. Bartley fellow at The Wall Street Journal in 2012, Ahmari joined the publication as assistant books editor. He then served as an editorial page writer based in London, where he wrote editorials and commissions and edited op-eds for the Journal's European edition.

Also while in law school, Ahmari co-edited with Nasser Weddady the 2012 book Arab Spring Dreams: The Next Generation Speaks Out for Freedom and Justice from North Africa to Iran, an anthology of the top essays submitted by young Mideast dissidents to the Dream Deferred Essay Contest. The Times Literary Supplement writes that Weddady and Ahmari "perceptively edited this collection of winning entries" from the Dream Deferred contest, and that "some of these young writers [featured in the anthology] possess more clarity than all the pundits combined." The book received endorsements from Polish Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Wałęsa and feminist icon Gloria Steinem, who wrote the anthology's foreword.

While in law school, inspired in part by the protests following the disputed June 2009 Iranian presidential election, he began working as a freelance journalist, contributing pieces to publications such as The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Commentary among others.

Sohrab Ahmari (Persian: سهراب احمری ‎, romanized: Sohrāb Aḥmarī; born February 1, 1985) is an Iranian-American columnist, editor, and author of nonfiction books. He is currently the op-ed editor of the New York Post and a contributing editor of The Catholic Herald. Previously, he served as a columnist and editor with The Wall Street Journal opinion pages in New York and London, and as a senior writer at Commentary magazine. Ahmari co-edited the 2012 book Arab Spring Dreams, an anthology of essays by young Mideast dissidents. Ahmari's book, The New Philistines, a polemic on how identity politics are corrupting the arts, was released on October 20, 2016 from Biteback Publishing. In January 2019, Ignatius Press published his spiritual memoir, From Fire, by Water, about his conversion to Roman Catholicism.