Maziar Bahari

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Maziar Bahari (2011)

Maziar Bahari ( Persian مازیار بهاری; * 1967 in Tehran ) is a Persian-Canadian journalist, filmmaker and human rights activist. Bahari worked as a reporter for Newsweek magazine from 1998 to 2011 . From June 2009 to October 20, 2009, Bahari was detained at the behest of the Iranian government. 2011 his memoirs were Then They Came for Me (dt .: Then they came for me ) published in which he processed his detention.

Life

Bahari comes from a politically active family: his father was imprisoned during the Pahlawi regime in the 1950s; his sister suffered the same fate in the 1980s during the Ayatollah Khomeini government .

Bahari was born in Tehran, where he lived. In 1988 Bahari moved to Montreal , Canada , where he studied communications , film and political science at Concordia University .

Soon after graduating, he produced his first film, The Voyage of "Saint Louis" . The film tells of the attempt of 937 German Jews to escape Nazi Germany by ship. The film shows the trip to Cuba and the USA in 1939, but where the refugees were forced to return to Germany. Bahari's work was the first film by a Muslim to focus on the Holocaust. When asked about his motivation, Bahari quoted from a seminar during his student days in Concordia:

“I studied the recent history of Judaism and was fascinated by the history of the Jews in North America. I had taken a class on Freud and Religion and the professor talked a lot about anti-Semitism in the United States and Canada in the early 20th century. Little did I know that until the 1950s Jews in North America had been discriminated against. As an immigrant, I was interested in the history of Jewish immigration from Europe to America. So I was looking for a story to combine all of these elements and came across the story of St. Louis . "

In Tehran's Evin Prison , referring to this film, he was accused of being on a - so literally - mission for the Zionists .

In 1997 Bahari started reporting on Iran and producing independent documentaries. A year later, he became Iran correspondent for Newsweek news magazine . In the following years, in addition to his journalistic work, he produced numerous documentaries and reports for the channels Channel 4 , BBC , including the life of Shiite clergy, African architecture, Iranian football enthusiasm and contemporary Iranian history.

Arrest, detention and release

On the morning of June 21, 2009, during the Iranian anti-fraud protests in 2009, Bahari was arrested at his home and taken to Evin Prison . During his detention, in July 2009, Bahari appeared on Iranian television declaring that Western journalists work as spies. The image and sound material was also distributed internationally by the Iranian government- affiliated broadcaster PressTV . Bahari was forced to accuse himself of preparing a color revolution and illegal demonstrations.

In 2011 Random House published his memoir Then They Came For Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival , which he wrote with the author Aimee Molloy. In the book, Bahari tells his family history and his imprisonment. In 2014 Jon Stewart adapted the book in the film Rosewater , in which the actor Gael García Bernal can be seen as Bahari.

Private

Bahari is married to Paola Gourley, an Italian-English lawyer who lives in London. The couple have a daughter who was born in October 2009, shortly after Bahari's release from prison.

Honors

  • In 2003 the Harvard Film Archive designated Bahari's work as follows:

    “In a country known for neorealist fiction films that focus on small events in the lives of individuals, the work of Iranian director Maziar Bahari is somewhat anomalous. Employing a traditional documentary style to explore more far-reaching cultural events, Bahari's films provide a glimpse inside contemporary Iranian culture as they reveal the human element behind the headlines and capture cultural truths through the lens of individual experience. Representing a new generation of young Iranian filmmakers, Bahari's trenchant looks at social issues in his country have brought both controversy and international acclaim. "

  • 2005 Emmy
  • 2007 Retrospective of Bahari's films on the occasion of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
  • In 2009 Desmond Tutu nominated him for the Princess of Asturias Prize in the "Unity" category.

Filmography

  • 1999: Paint! No matter what
  • 2004: Mohammad and the Matchmaker (short film)
  • 2004: And Along Came a Spider
  • 2005: Targets: Reporters in Iraq (television documentary)
  • 2008: countdown
  • 2010: An Iranian Odyssey
  • 2012: Forced Confessions
  • 2014: To Light a Candle

Web links

Commons : Maziar Bahari  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Newsweek: Journalist detained in Iran now in UK . October 20, 2009. Retrieved October 21, 2009. 
  2. ↑ Newsweek reporter Maziar Bahari Released in Iran . Newsweek. Retrieved October 20, 2009.
  3. ^ Maziar Bahari: Maziar Bahari on the Iranian Jailers Who Tortured His Family - The Daily Beast . Newsweek.com. June 26, 2011. Retrieved December 28, 2011.
  4. ↑ Nadine Epstein: 118 Days in Iran's Evin Prison . In: Moment Magazine . July / August 2011. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
  5. ^ Brian Stelter: Newsweek Steps Up Effort to Free Reporter in Iran , The New York Times. August 3, 2009. Retrieved October 21, 2009. 
  6. ↑ NEWSWEEK Reporter Arrested Without Charge in Iran - The Daily Beast . Newsweek.com. June 20, 2009. Retrieved December 28, 2011.
  7. ↑ Gravshon, Michael, Magratten, Drew: Newsweek's Bahari Recalls Iran Detention . In: 60 minutes . CBS News. Pp. 2-3. November 22, 2009. Archived from the original on December 1, 2009. Retrieved on December 1, 2009.
  8. ^ Bahari, Maziar: Newsweek Reporter's Ordeal in Iran . Newsweek. Archived from the original on December 1, 2009. Retrieved December 1, 2009.
  9. ↑ Thomas Erdbrink, William Branigin: Iran's Leadership Cautions Against Protest After Certification of Vote Results , The Washington Post. July 1, 2009. Retrieved October 21, 2009. 
  10. ↑ Canwest News Service : Journalist Maziar Bahari released from Iranian jail . canada.com. October 20, 2009. Archived from the original on December 1, 2009. Retrieved on December 1, 2009.
  11. ↑ Christopher Dickey: Dickey: 100 Iranians on trial, one baby's future in the balance - The Daily Beast . Newsweek.com. August 3, 2009. Retrieved December 28, 2011.
  12. ^ Maziar Bahari: 'Then They Came For' journalist Maziar Bahari . NPR. Retrieved December 28, 2011.
  13. ^ Maziar Bahari - Harvard Film Archive . Hcl.harvard.edu. May 13, 2003. Archived from the original on April 3, 2012. Retrieved on December 28, 2011.
  14. ↑ Previous Finalists . The Rory Peck Trust. Archived from the original on March 24, 2012. Retrieved on December 28, 2011.
  15. ^ Global Writers and Filmmakers Call for Bahari's Release , Newsweek. July 17, 2009. Retrieved October 21, 2009. 
  16. ^ Free Maziar Bahari , New York Times. September 8, 2009. Retrieved October 21, 2009. 
personal data
SURNAME Bahari, Maziar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES مازیار بهاری (Persian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Persian-Canadian journalist, filmmaker and human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran