Sohrab Ahmari is a senior writer at Commentary magazine. Previously he spent five years as an editor and columnist with The Wall Street Journal opinion pages in London and New York. He 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.Ahmari was born in Tehran, Iran. As a child, he was interrogated by security officials about his parents and faced disciplinary action 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. Wikipedia
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