# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mehdi-mousavi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:07:40.611Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mehdi-mousavi"
name: "Mehdi Mousavi"
slug: "mehdi-mousavi"
description: "Mehdi Mousavi, also Mehdi Moosavi, also Seyed Mahdi Mousavi is an Iranian poet, novelist, lyricist and trained pharmacist. He is regarded as one of the leading figures of Iran’s post-modern ghazal movement and is known for his socially engaged poetry and literary activism. Mousavi was arrested in 2013 along with poet Fateme Ekhtesari, and later sentenced to nine years in prison and 99 lashes. A group of poets and writers signed a petition calling for their release. He escaped from Iran in December 2015. Mousavi now lives in Lillehammer, Norway, where he arrived in January 2017 as part of the international Cities of Refuge Network."
tagline: "Iranian poet and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mehdi_Mousavi_Norway.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1976-10-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.59
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.392697333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/seyed.mehdi.moosavi/"
    handle:    "seyed.mehdi.moosavi"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6272266/"
    handle:    "nm6272266"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Mehdi Moussavi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Mousavi"
    title: "Mehdi Mousavi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Mousavi"
    title: "Mehdi Mousavi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D9%85%D9%87%D8%AF%DB%8C_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%88%DB%8C"
    title: "سید مهدی موسوی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Mousavi"
    title: "Mehdi Mousavi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%94%D7%93%D7%99_%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%90%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99"
    title: "מהדי מוסאווי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Mousavi"
    title: "Mehdi Mousavi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Mousavi"
    title: "Mehdi Mousavi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5960484"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2556432"
    title: "Mehdi Mousavi"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump