Biography
Maziar Bahari (Persian: مازیار بهاری; born May 25, 1967) is an Iranian-Canadian journalist, filmmaker and human rights activist. He was a reporter for Newsweek from 1998 to 2011. Bahari was incarcerated by the Iranian government from June 21, 2009 to October 17, 2009, and has written a family memoir, Then They Came for Me, a New York Times best seller. His memoir is the basis for Jon Stewart's 2014 film Rosewater. Bahari later founded the IranWire citizen journalism news site, the freedom of expression campaign Journalism Is Not A Crime and the education and public art organization Paint the Change.
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Filmography
all 6
Movies 5
Producer 3
Director 1
Writer 1
TV Shows 1
self 1
Director
82 Names: Syria, Please Don't Forget Us (2018)
Movie
Producer
Tickling Giants (2017)
Movie
Producer
Afghanistan: My Return to the Valley of Death (2015)
Movie
Writer
Rosewater (2014)
Movie
6
Director / Editor / Producer / Writer / Cinematography
And Along Came a Spider (2003)
Movie
Self
The Daily Show (1996)
TV
6.75
Ratings
Average 5.3
Based on 61.7 Thousand movie and tv ratings over time
1996
2014
2015
2018
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Information
Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1967-05-25 (56 years old)
Birth PlaceTehran, Iran
CitizenshipsCanada
AwardsOxfam Novib/PEN Award
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Image credit: Tore Sætre, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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