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Hamed Ahmadi

Foreign Policy Reporter & AJI Fellow

Hamed covers foreign policy and Congress at The Washington Sun.

He was previously a reporter at HuffPost, covering daily news, and Afghanistan, and a graduate fellow at American University’s Investigative Reporting Workshop, where he focused on housing issues in D.C. He holds a master’s degree in international affairs from AU, and is also a graduate of Columbia Journalism School’s Lede Program for Data Journalism.

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