Maziar Bahari (Persian: مازیار بهاری; born May 25, 1967) 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,[4] and has written a family memoir, Then They Came for Me, a New York Times best seller. His memoir is the basis…
Abbas Malekzadeh Milani (Persian: عباس ملکزاده میلانی; born 1949) is an Iranian-American historian, educator, and author. Milani is a visiting professor of political science, and the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of the Iranian Studies program at Stanford University. He is also a research fellow and co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at Stanford University‘s Hoover Institution.[1][2] In Milani’s book, Lost Wisdom:…
Nikahang Kowsar (Persian: نیکآهنگ کوثر; born 1969), also known as Nik Kowsar is an Iranian-Canadian cartoonist, journalist, and blogger, currently living in Washington, D.C., US. Kowsar was also a reformist candidate for the second term of city council of Tehran in 2003, an election won by the conservative candidates of Abadgaran. He studied Geology at the University of Tehran, and joined Gol-Agha, an Iranian political satire magazine…
Bijan Daneshmand (Persian: بیژن دانشمند, born 16 August 1958) is an Iranian born-English actor and artist based in London, England. Early life and education Bijan Daneshmand was born in Tehran, Iran At the age of 10, he moved to England to receive his early education. After graduating from King’s College London, he attended the London…
