Maziar Bahari
- January 10, 2024
- Filmmaker
Quick Facts
Maziar Bahari Biography
| Name | Maziar Bahari |
| Birthday | May 25 |
| Birth Year | 1967 |
| Place Of Birth | Tehran |
| Home Town | Tehran |
| Birth Country | Iran |
| Birth Sign | Gemini |
| Siblings | Maryam |
| Spouse | Paola Gourley |
Maziar Bahari is one of the most popular and richest Filmmaker who was born on May 25, 1967 in Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
Maziar Bahari (Persian: مازیار بهاری ; born May 25, 1967) is an Iranian Canadian journalist, film maker 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 New York Times best seller family memoir, Then They Came for Me. 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 street art and social justice project Paint the Change. He currently serves on the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Task Force to Protect Minority Communities of Middle East.
“You may feel safe in your modest house, protected by thousands of revolutionary guards. But beyond them the world is changing. Iran is changing. In 1978, as the shah was doing his best to stifle his people, Ayatollah Khomeini promised that ‘in an Islamic Iran the media will have the freedom to express all Iran’s realities and events.’ Hoping they could realize that promise, Iranians rose up and overthrew the shah. Ayatollah Khamenei, those who forget the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it.”
Maziar Bahari Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Filmmaker |
| House | Living in own house. |
Maziar Bahari is one of the richest Filmmaker from Iran. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Maziar Bahari 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
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 that even up until the 1950s Jews were discriminated against in North America, so I wanted to explore that further. As an immigrant, I was interested in the history of Jewish immigration from Europe to America. So I looked for a story to combine all these elements and came across the story of the St. Louis.
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Who is Maziar Bahari Dating?
According to our records, Maziar Bahari married to Paola Gourley. As of December 1, 2023, Maziar Bahari’s is not dating anyone.
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Bahari’s films have won several awards and nominations including an Emmy in
- A retrospective of Bahari’s films was organized in November 2007 by the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. In September 2009, Bahari was nominated by Desmond Tutu for the Prince of Asturias Award for Concord, widely known as Spain’s Nobel Prize.
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Melodie Ranked on the list of most popular Filmmaker. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Iran. Maziar Bahari celebrates birthday on May 25 of every year.
After his release Bahari launched a complaint against Iranian government’s English satellite channel, Press TV, for filming and airing an interview with him under duress. In May 2011, Ofcom upheld Bahari’s three complaints against Press TV. In the summary Ofcom said Press TV’s presentation of Bahari was unfair because it “omitted material facts and was placed in a context in which inferences adverse to Mr Bahari could be drawn”. The media regulator also said that Press TV failed to get his consent and this “contributed to the overall unfairness to Mr Bahari in the item broadcast”. Ofcom added that filming and broadcasting the interview without consent “while he was in a sensitive situation and vulnerable state was an unwarranted infringement of Mr Bahari’s privacy”.