Hello!

I’m a freelance journalist who writes about politics, gender, culture and technology, and has a special affinity for Eurasia and the Caucasus. I fact-check, usually longform pieces, for publications such as The New York Times, the New Yorker and Harper's Magazine, on occasion work as a fixer for foreign correspondents and consult for Turkey-based NGOs, and translate between English, Turkish, Azerbaijani and Russian. Before actual journalism school, my journalism school was the Al Jazeera newsroom in Istanbul, where I started out as a Community Manager and left as the Executive Producer of Social Media four years later. I have live-tweeted every annual Putin news conference since 2011 because that's the kind of thing I enjoy doing, and I love being in a newsroom during breaking news. More about my work here. 

Other than New York, my two homes are Baku, Azerbaijan, where I was born*, and Istanbul, Turkey, where we moved when I was five years and eight months old. I have a joint MA in Journalism and Russian & Slavic Studies from New York University, and for undergrad I studied Sociology and Politics at Oberlin College. (*Technically the USSR back then, which goes to partly explain the above-mentioned affinity.)

If you want to say hi or get in touch about a job, you can email me here: hacizade.nigar@gmail.com.