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Iranian journalist and filmmaker

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Maziar Bahari 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.

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Photos 2

Filmography 9

Rosewater2014 · ★ 6.4
Tickling Giants2017
And Along Came a Spider2002
The Voyage of the St. Louis1995
82 Names: Syria, Please Don't Forget Us2018
Forced Confessions
An Iranian Odyssey2011
The Fall of a Shah2009
Armita’s Story: Iran's Generation Z Rebellion Against the Ayatollahs2024

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Television 1

The Daily Show1996

Awards 1

Oxfam Novib/PEN Award

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Maziar Bahari 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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Born 1967 · age 59
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