Lisa Daftari is an Iranian-American commentator and investigative journalist. Lisa regularly appears on television and radio with commentary and analysis and provides exclusive reporting on vital developments in the region.
Currently, she works as an on-air Fox News political analyst and has previously been featured on NBC, PBS, CBS, NPR, ABC, Voice of America, the Washington Post and others.
Lisa also serves as founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Foreign Desk which is an international news and the U.S. foreign policy news website. Daftari has been interviewed in English, Persian, and Spanish.
Her areas of expertise and coverage include the global Christian persecution, human rights, cybersecurity, Middle East and North Africa, terrorism, national security, the Arab Spring and much more.
Lisa Daftari Wiki, Age
Lisa was born to Iranian Jewish parents Sean and Simin Daftari in New Jersey on 27 January 1980. She worked for many news cable network and radio before she joined the Fox News channel. Her works are mainly focused on Middle East issues and foreign affairs. She belongs to mixed ethnicity.
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Talking about her family, her father is a college professor and physician, and her mother had a background in language and accounting. She was raised in the suburb of New York City, Bergen County along with her three siblings.
Lisa Daftari wishes her father on Father's day on 18 June 2018 (Photo: Lisa Daftari's Instagram)
She got educated in a private school and completed her high schools. After that, she attended Rutgers University, New Brunswick and graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Spanish, vocal performance and Middle Eastern studies.
Later, she earned her Masters Degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Journalism.
While Lisa Daftari was a graduate student in 2006, she was invited to show her dissertation documentary film about an underground Iranian political group, Marze Por Gohar to Congress.
During that time, she served as an associate producer in the investigative unit in NBC which was based in Los Angeles. She helped in breaking the story about the 2005 Los Angeles bomb plot while she was at NBC. In the incident, an Islamist prison gang, Jamiyyat Ul-Islam Is-Saheeh, planned to bomb an important Los Angeles site.
Lisa Daftari departed from NBC after graduating in 2007 to work as a researcher for several think tanks focusing on the Middle East and counterterrorism. She also attended several hearings on Iran divestment in the California State Assembly.
At the age of 39, Lisa is a bilingual woman who is fluent in Spanish, English, Persian, Hebrew, and she is also an opera singer and pianist. She is a very talented woman, who is at the height of her career.
Lisa Daftari Married, Husband
Lisa is a very private person who does not like to publicize much of her private information. For a long time, she did not talk about her personal relationships, which made her fans wonder a lot, but she has finally opened up about her relationship status.
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She is married to her boyfriend, whose name she has not disclosed to the media. However, she was very excited about the wedding and posted the most beautiful pictures on her Instagram. The wedding ceremony took place on 20 May 2018.
Lisa Daftari gets married to the love of her life on 20 May 2018 (Photo: Lisa Daftari's Instagram)
Other than wedding pictures, Lisa also posts random photos with her husband on Instagram and Twitter. It is very clear that she is thrilled to spend the rest of her life with him.
