Gilda Sahebi is a trained physician and political scientist. She completed her journalistic traineeship at Bayerischer Rundfunk and works as a freelance journalist with a focus on antisemitism and racism, women's rights, the Middle East, and science. She is a writer for taz and Der Spiegel and also works for ARD, among others. Her books "Our Sword is Love: The Feminist Revolt in Iran" and "How We Teach Ourselves Racism: An Analysis of German Debates" were published in 2023 and 2024 by S. Fischer Verlag.