Finding experts for a journalistic article
Hello all, I hope this in not an inappropriate post to make here, but if so please do let me know.
I am a journalism student and am currently writing my bachelors thesis on my country's national news coverage of the current war. In addition to the thesis paper I am required to do a journalistic production.
Besides journalism I minored in history and am thus very interested in writing a sort of explainer article about Iranian history. Obviously this is very broad, but specifically I would like to approach it as an article that can provide understanding for how the current political situation in Iran came to be (not talking about the war here, but more so within the country's boarders).
I also would like to include an approach of what implications the past has for the future of Iran and its people.
Does anyone here have suggestions for any experts that I could reach out to for an interview? The thesis is a group project and my group mates are all doing more individual case articles with stories from Iranians and I would like my contribution to add more broad context to their stories.
I am coming at this task with curiosity and compassion for all humans as my primary values and truly seek an informational approach so there are no hidden agendas here. I hope someone here can point me in the right direction.
Thank you so much for your time reading this if you did and any suggestions you might have!
I would need any sources I speak with to speak English well, but other than that I am mostly looking to ask some smart people questions so I can hopefully spread further understanding for what's going on