Maziar Bahari
Maziar Bahari ( Persian: مازیار بهاری ), ( n ) (born 1967 ) is a Persian- Canadian journalist, filmmaker and human rights activist. Bahari worked from 1998 to 2011 as a reporter for Newsweek magazine. From June 2009 to October 20, 2009 Bahari was imprisoned at the behest of the Iranian government. About the prison time he has a diary under the title Then They Came for Me ( Then they came for me) submitted.
Life
Born in Tehran, Bahari in 1988 moved to Canada to study film and political science. He comes from a politically involved family, his father was imprisoned at the time of the Pahlavi regime in the 1950s; his sister suffered the same Schick Hall in the 1980s during the reign of Ayatollah Khomeini.
He graduated with a degree from Concordia University for the subject of communication sciences in Montreal. Shortly after, Bahari produced his first film, The Voyage of Saint Louis, about the attempt by 937 German Jews to escape on the ship of the same name from Nazi Germany. The film shows the journey to Cuba and the United States in 1939, where it was however again forced back to Germany. With this film, Bahari is the first Muslim who has made a movie about the Holocaust. When asked what had motivated him to do, Bahari quoted from a seminar studying in Concordia: where he
Studied the modern history of the Jews and I was fascinated by the history of the Jews in North America. I took a course on Freud and religion and the professor Talked a lot about early 20th century anti -Semitism in the U.S. and Canada. I had no idea did even up until the 1950s Jews were discriminated against in North America, so I wanted to explore did further. As to immigrant, I was interested in the history of Jewish immigration from Europe to America. So I Looked for a story to combine all thesis elements and came across the story of the St. Louis.
In Tehran's Evin prison on charges which included reference to this film, on one - to his mission for the Zionists - so literally.
1997 started Bahari reports on Iran and produced independent documentaries; a year later he was Iran correspondent for Newsweek.
In the following years he created numerous documentaries and reports for Channel 4, BBC about the life of Shiite clerics, African architecture, Iranian football fanaticism and contemporary Iranian history.
Married Bahari is with Paola Gourley, an Italian- English lawyer from Londen, whose daughter was born in October 2009, shortly after Bahri was released from prison