Ebrahim Nabavi

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Seyyed Ebrahim Nabavi
Born1958
Astara, Iran
NationalityIranian
Occupation(s)Satirist
Writer
Diarist
Researcher
Radio Host

Rooz, and has a satirical program for the website and broadcasts on the Amsterdam based Radio Zamaneh
.

Early career

During and after studying sociology at Shiraz University and University of Tehran, but before starting his political career in Tehran, Nabavi also worked as a school teacher, and taught philosophy in the Jihad of Construction (جهاد سازندگی) effort.

Nabavi started his political career working for the Iranian dalahoo in the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, the Ministry of Interior (personally invited by

AP (ca. 1982–1985 CE). According to himself, he was chosen because of his wide political knowledge about the Iranian political issues, because of his past activities with the Office for Strengthening Unity and the Organization of Muslim Students of Shiraz University, where he had worked with Ata'ollah Mohajerani, Jamileh Kadivar, and Mostafa Moeen
.

Satire and journalism career

Nabavi started his satire career in the Soroush magazine in serial articles on cinema titled "andar hekāyat-e rešte va sar-r derāz va …" and continued it in the Gozaresh-e Film magazine (which he co-founded and worked as the magazine's first editor) with "rāport-hā" (reports). After leaving Gozaresh-e Film, Nabavi helped Kioumars Saberi Foumani start the Gol-Agha magazine, where he later wrote for.

While working at Gol-Agha, Nabavi started writing also for the

crossword puzzles
.

Nabavi later "escaped" to

Mostafa Mirsalim in the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. In Isfahan he later became active in the presidential campaign for Mohammad Khatami, after his election he moved back to Tehran. He later moved into self-imposed exile, settling in Belgium sometime in 2003 or 2004.[1]

Nabavi became famous after starting his daily column sotūn-e panjom (

Fa'ezeh Hashemi in the founding of the newspaper Zan. In August 2009 he released the video "The Confession: Ebrahim Nabavi",[2] where "dressed in striped pajamas and wearing bandages," he "confesses to meeting with a C.I.A. agent, importing green velvet, and having affairs with celebrities ranging from Marilyn Monroe and Sophia Loren to Carla Bruni and Scarlett Johansson" in a parody of defendant confessions at the 2009 election protesters show trial in Tehran.[3]
The video had over 120,000 viewings as of 10 February 2010.

He has also written several books of satire, interviews, prison diaries, and research on the history of Iranian satire. By 2006 he was writing for the online newspaper

Rooz and the BBC News
in Persian.

Nabavi has been arrested and jailed on two occasions for his political satire. During one of these periods of detention he wrote sālon-e šomāre-ye šeš (سالن شماره ۶; Corridor No 6), translated into French as Couloir n° 6 : Carnets de prison (

ISBN 2-7427-5161-0
).

See also

References

  1. ^ Esfandiari, Golnaz (13 May 2009). "A Vanishing Breed, Iranian Satirist Pokes Fun From Exile". Radio Free Europe. Archived from the original on 4 October 2012. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
  2. ^ "The Confession: Ebrahim Nabavi :: Mohammad Ali Abtahi". YouTube. 7 July 2009. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
  3. ^ Laura Secor. "The Iran Show by Laura Secor. August 31, 2009". Newyorker.com. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
  • Amiri, Noushabeh & and Nabavi, Seyyed Ebrahim (1999). یک گفت‌وگوی ساده (yek goftogū-ye sāde). In Nabavi, Seyyed Ebrahim, گفت‌وگوهای صریح (goftogūhā-ye sarih), pp. 13–52. Tehran, Iran: Rowzaneh.
    ISBN 964-334-017-1
    . (In Persian)

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