Holly Dagres (Los Angeles, California) is an Iranian-American analyst and commentator on the Middle East with a focus on Iran.[1][2][3] She is a nonresident senior fellow at the Washington-based think tank, the Atlantic Council.[4] She is also editor of the IranSource blog and the curator for the weekly newsletter, The Iranist.[5][6]
Dagres is a contributing editor at the Cairo Review of Global Affairs.[12] Dagres regularly conducts interviews for television, radio, and print, including BBC News, CNN, Fox News, NBC News, the New York Times, the Telegraph, and Washington Post, among others.[13] Her work has appeared in numerous publications including Al Jazeera, Al-Monitor, Atlantic Council, Buzzfeed, Foreign Policy, the Huffington Post, and Voice of America.[14]
In 2009, Dagres entered the Miss California USA 2010 beauty pageant as Miss Northridge.[15]
In 2015, Your Middle East called Dagres one of the must follow Instagram users of the Middle East.[16] Her Instagram account was called one of the "8 stunning Instagram accounts that shed light on the real Iran" by Elan Magazine.[17] It was also featured by Al Jazeera English's "Stream of the Week" as a glimpse into Iran.[18]
In 2017, Dagres posted a photo of her late Iranian grandmother with hashtag #GrandparentsNotTerrorists to show solidarity against U.S. President Donald Trump's Executive Order 13769, also known as the Muslim Ban. After it went viral, she and a friend started the 'Banned Grandmas' Instagram account to remind Americans that the ban is ongoing and continues to affect American families.[19][20]
In 2018, Dagres joined the Washington-based think tank, the Atlantic Council as a nonresident senior fellow and editor of the IranSource blog.[21]
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^"About". Holly Dagres. Archived from the original on 3 September 2024. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
