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Maziar Bahari

(1967) Film Director

16 quotes in 21 categories

Maziar Bahari is a film director.

Quick Facts About Maziar Bahari

Born: May 25, 1967
Profession: Film Director

About Maziar Bahari

[Wikidata] Iranian journalist and filmmaker... | [Wikipedia] Maziar Bahari 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, and has written a family memoir, Then They Came for Me, a New York Times b

Quotes by Maziar Bahari

“Talking to a prisoner under duress can be the most shameful thing a journalist will ever do. I stared at him, willing…

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“When I saw my backside, I gasped. “I have no ass!” I said aloud. “They have left me no ass!”

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“After, presumably, Rosewater found out that Chekhov was not Jewish, he did not bother with any more questions about people with surnames…

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“Tsk, tsk, tsk, Maziar,” he said sarcastically. “Don’t play games with me, or you will make me angry again. Don’t tell me…

Drinking alcohol

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“Jafaa. In Persian, this very poetic word refers to all the wrongs you do to those who love you.”

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“Seventy-four suspended lashes for having tea with your friend!” she said, with as much hatred as I’d ever heard in her voice.…

Death

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“I detested revolutions; I believed, instead, in reconciliation and reform.”

Peacebuilding

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“Do you think we’re like you Americans in Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo who torture people by keeping them thirsty? We have something…

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“We were all caught in that uncomfortable zone between trying to save our lives and betraying ourselves.”

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“You need to have your lunch before going out to report on this ashghal,” she said, referring to Ahmadinejad. Ashghal, the Persian…

Parenting

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“The next day, Sunday, June 14, Ahmadinejad held a press conference in the office of the president, on Pasteur Street in south…

Anger inside

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“No one believes in the koseh she’r”—the bullshit—“that you’re going to say.”

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“In arranged marriages in Iran, it is customary that after the family of the boy asks the family of the girl for…

Arranged marriage

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“When I asked him what he was planning to do in Canada, he didn’t have an answer. “I don’t care about myself…

Children

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“You thought of dying as a value. Young people these days appreciate being alive.”

Death

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“In fact, in the 1990s an adviser to the mayor of Tehran suggested that they add Prozac to Tehran’s water to revitalize…

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