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Abbas Yari () is an Iranian journalist and film critic. He was born in Arak in 1951. He graduated as a cameraman at the Superior School of Cinema in 1975. Abbas Yari started his professional career as a journalist, and worked until 1981 for the newspapers ''Sobh e Emrouz'', '' Tehran Mosavvar'' and ''
Kayhan ''Kayhan'' () is a Persian-language newspaper published in Tehran, Iran. It is considered "the most conservative and hard-line Iranian newspaper." Hossein Shariatmadari is the editor-in-chief of ''Kayhan''. According to the report of the ' ...
''. In 1968, while still a student, he presided the cultural foundation for youth in his hometown, Arak, being responsible of organizing journalistic, poetry, theater and lectures related events. He was the executive director of this magazine from the start till 2021. In 1993, ''Film'' began to print an English version of the magazine for its international readers, ''Film International'', the only English magazine solely about Iranian cinema. In 2021 after the death of Massoud Mehrabi, he left ''Film'' to start a new magazine called '' Film Emrooz'' alongside Houshang Golmakani.FILM EMROOZ Official Website Page
/ref> In 1988, he was one of the founding members of the foundation of art critics and writers about Iranian cinema. Between 2002 and 2005, he organized the Iranian cinema museum in Tehran.


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