Based on They Came for Me: A Family’s Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival, the 2011 memoir by Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari, Jon Stewart’s dramatization of the events that led to Bahari being arrested, interrogated, tortured, and eventually released from Iran’s Evin prison should’ve been a visceral work…
When Iranian Saeed Hanaei killed the first of 16 prostitutes, it was the inevitable extension of an egocentric, narcissistic sociopath who needed to regain a sense of power after his efforts to convinced Johns to stay away from street walkers and remain godly resulted in Hanaei getting smacked around…
Produced when Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was still in power, this BBC Persian Television documentary by Maziar Bahari reveals an unlikely relationship between Iran and Israel, which one historian describes as ‘love without marriage’ when 30 years earlier the two countries shared more than diplomatic relations…
Maziar Bahari’s documentary examines the pivotal period between 1951-1953 in which Iranian cabinet minister Mohammad Mossadegh was elected Prime Minister and proceeded to nationalize the country’s oil industry after 40 years of control by the British Ango-Persian Oil Company (later to become BP), and whose progressive goals were ultimately thwarted by coup led by the CIA at the behest of Britain’s MI6…
In this episode of the half-hour BBC series World Weddings, director Maziar Bahari fulfills the network’s mandate of crafting a lighthearted piece on marriage – in this case, an HIV positive former drug user searching for a wife – and illuminates more everyday aspects of a culture rarely seen in western media…
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