, Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

) is an award-winning Iranian journalist who writes for The Guardian

The Guardian

The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...

. He has been named as the 2010 Journalist of the Year in Britain at the Foreign Press Association. He currently writes for The Guardian

The Guardian

The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...

 from London but and has worked as an Iran correspondent for The Guardian

The Guardian

The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...

 from Tehran

Tehran

Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...

 in the past, especially in summer 2009. He is a trilingual journalist and has written in Persian, English and French for a number of different newspapers around the world, including The Guardian

The Guardian

The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...

, Le Monde

Le Monde

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 and Etemaad. He is a co-producer of the HBO's documentary For Neda and was a recipient of the 70th annual Peabody Award

Peabody Award

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 for his HBO film..

Biography

Dehghan was born on 1 May 1985 in Karaj

Karaj

Karaj is a city in and the capital of Karaj County, Alborz Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,377,450, in 385,955 families, , making it the fifth-largest city in Iran after Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan and Tabriz.) It is situated west of Tehran, at the foothills of the Alborz...

, a city near Tehran

Tehran

Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...

, the capital of Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

. He was born to his father Abdolhossein Kamali Dehghan and his mother Ozra Bagherpoor. He lost his father at the age of four because of a car accident. He started to learn English when he was 10. He also began to learn French when he was in high school.

He started journalism at his very young age. At high school, he published a school-based quarterly named “Chakad”. He continued practical literary journalism writing for Shargh

Shargh

Shargh is the most popular reformist newspaper in Iran. It is managed by Mehdi Rahmanian, and its chief editor was Mohammad Ghouchani in its first period of publication...

 which was banned in 2005. He got his B.A. in engineering by January 2009 and graduated in 2011 from one of the world's leading journalism schools, City University Department of Journalism, with a Master of Arts in International Journalism after receiving a scholarship from Open Society Institute

Open Society Institute

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Saeed Kamali Dehghan also is a blogger. His blog won 2007 best weblog of Iranian literature blog community, Ghorbaghe Talaee conducted by Radio Zamaneh. He covered Tehran unrest after the Iranian presidential election, 2009

Iranian presidential election, 2009

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 for the foreign media including CNN

CNN

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, CBC

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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, France 24

France 24

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, channel 4

Channel 4

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 and The Guardian

The Guardian

The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...

.

Saeed Kamali Dehghan conduct several original interviews with internationally known writers and filmmakers, including David Lynch

David Lynch

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, Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa

Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis of Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian-Spanish writer, politician, journalist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading authors of his generation...

, Paul Auster

Paul Auster

Paul Benjamin Auster is an American author known for works blending absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as The New York Trilogy , Moon Palace , The Music of Chance , The Book of Illusions and The Brooklyn Follies...

, John Barth

John Barth

John Simmons Barth is an American novelist and short-story writer, known for the postmodernist and metafictive quality of his work.-Life:...

, JM Coetzee, E. L. Doctorow

E. L. Doctorow

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, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is a French dramatist, novelist and fiction writer. His plays have been staged in over fifty countries all over the world.- Life :...

, Amélie Nothomb

Amélie Nothomb

Amélie Nothomb is a Belgian writer who writes in French.- Biography :Amélie Nothomb was born in Kobe, Japan to Belgian diplomats. She lived there until she was five years old, and then subsequently lived in China, New York, Bangladesh, Burma, Coventry and Laos...

, Andreï Makine

Andreï Makine

Andreï Makine is a Russian-born French author. He also publishes under the pseudonym Gabriel Osmonde. Makine's novels include Dreams of My Russian Summers which won two top French awards, the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Médicis.-Biography:Andreï Makine was born in Krasnoyarsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet...

, Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende

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, Tzvetan Todorov

Tzvetan Todorov

Tzvetan Todorov is a Franco-Bulgarian philosopher. He has lived in France since 1963 with his wife Nancy Huston and their two children, writing books and essays about literary theory, thought history and culture theory....

, T.C. Boyle, Alain de Botton

Alain de Botton

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 and Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky

Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years. Chomsky has been described as the "father of modern linguistics" and...

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Awards

Saeed Kamali Dehghan is named as the 2010 Journalist of the Year at the Foreign Press Association. He also received the FPA award for the Best Documentary of the Year for making "For Neda".
He is also a recipient of the 70th annual Peabody Award

Peabody Award

The George Foster Peabody Awards recognize distinguished and meritorious public service by radio and television stations, networks, producing organizations and individuals. In 1939, the National Association of Broadcasters formed a committee to recognize outstanding achievement in radio broadcasting...

 for his film For Neda. He received a Peabody Award

Peabody Award

The George Foster Peabody Awards recognize distinguished and meritorious public service by radio and television stations, networks, producing organizations and individuals. In 1939, the National Association of Broadcasters formed a committee to recognize outstanding achievement in radio broadcasting...

 in a ceremony hosted by Larry King

Larry King

Lawrence Harvey "Larry" King is an American television and radio host whose work has been recognized with awards including two Peabodys and ten Cable ACE Awards....

 in New York's Waldorf-Asotria on May 23rd, 2011.

Film

Saeed Kamali Dehghan is a co-producer of the HBO's documentary For Neda. He risked arrest to work secretly inside Iran to locate and film interviews with Neda's family and obtain unseen footage of her life for the HBO's documentary about Neda.

External links

• Saeed Kamali Dehghan official website (in Persian)
• Column archive in The Guardian
  The Guardian
  The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
  
  
• Blog entries at The Huffington Post
  The Huffington Post
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