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 2009 to October 20, 2009, and has written a New York Times best seller family memoir, Then They Came for Me and made a documentary film To Light a Candle on same subject. His memoir is the basis for Jon Stewart's 2014 film Rosewater.
The Iranian government does not have a sense of humor, but they are funny. They think they know everything, even though many in the government are utterly ignorant about what's going on outside of the small rooms where they beat people up.
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Was arrested and imprisoned without charge in Iran in 2009, and subsequently made to give a coerced confession in which he stated that American journalists were working as spies in Iran. The Iranian authorities only evidence of this was an interview on The Daily Show (1996) in which Jason Jones pretended to be a spy.
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
An Iranian Odyssey
2010
Countdown
2008
Documentary
Targets: Reporters in Iraq
2005
TV Movie documentary
Mohammad and the Matchmaker
2004
Short
Va ankaboot amad
2003
TV Movie documentary
Football beh sabk-e Irani
2001
TV Movie documentary
Naghashi kon!
2001
TV Short documentary
Of Shame and Coffins
2000
TV Short documentary
Art of Demolition
1998
TV Movie documentary
The Voyage of the St. Louis
1995
Documentary
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Tickling Giants
2016
Documentary producer
Kiosk: A Generation Destroyed by Madness
2012
Documentary producer
My City Pizza
2008
Documentary short producer
Of Men and Motorcycles
2008
Documentary short producer
Consulting God
2008
Documentary short executive producer
Dying to Be Apart
2003
TV Movie documentary producer: Iran
Va ankaboot amad
2003
TV Movie documentary producer
Of Shame and Coffins
2000
TV Short documentary producer
The Voyage of the St. Louis
1995
Documentary producer
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Rosewater
2014
book "Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival"
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