Roozbeh Mirebrahimi is an Iranian

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born in 1978 in

Rasht Rasht (; ) is a city in the Central District (Rasht County), Central District of Rasht County, Gilan province, Gilan province, Iran, serving as the capital of the province, the county, and the district. The city is also known as the "City of ...

, Iran. He started his career by writing for some of

Gilan Gilan Province () is one of the 31 provinces of Iran, in the northwest of the country and southwest of the Caspian Sea. Its capital is the city of Rasht. The province lies along the Caspian Sea, in Iran's Region 3, west of the province of ...

's local newspapers. His professional career as a

started at the beginning of the Iranian Reform Era. During the next years he wrote for several newspapers including Jomhuriyat, Roozna and Etemade Melli,

Etemad ''Etemad'' or ''Etemaad'' () is a Persian-language reformist newspaper based in Iran that is published in Tehran. It is managed by Elias Hazrati, who was representative from Rasht and Tehran in the Parliament of Iran. Overview The first edi ...

, Hambastegi, Sharq etc. He worked for those newspapers as reporter or political editor or writer. He has been chief in editor of Iran dar Jahan magazine since 2006. He also has written many books including Untolds of Revolution, Eslahat Zire Hasht (Interrogating Reform Movement) and Nagofteha (Untolds) He has lived in New York since fall of 2006 and has been among the faculty of the

CUNY Graduate School of Journalism The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York is a public graduate journalism school located in New York City, New York, United States. One of the 25 institutions comprising the City University of New York, ...

. Since 2010, he is visiting Scholar at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalist Institute". He was arrested along with other journalists in September and October 2004.

Awards

In 2006, he was one of the Iranian writers that received the Hellman/Hammett International prize from HRW.Iran: Writers Struggle to Uphold Freedom of Expression , Human Rights Watch
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Books

*Nagofteh haye Enghelab-e 57 (About untold aspects of the Iranian revolution) / banned in Iran and already Printed in Paris *Nagofteh ha " (Study About Iranian culture and society problem with another person / Hasan Naraghi) / Printed in Iran *Eslahat zir-e Hasht (About reformist period in Iran) / Printed in US *Azadi va Digar Hich (About one Iranian intellectual- Ehsan-e Naraghi- and his books ) / finished writing and ready for print in Iran *Nagofteh haye Dolat-e Movaghat ( About the first Prime Minister after Islamic revolution in Iran) / Studying and researching and continue writing *Three conversation ( Mohsen Sazegara, Shirin Ebadi and Amir Mohebian by Roozbeh Mirebrahimi) / Printed in US -2010 * Forsate Entekhab (Opportunity to Choose) / Printed in US -2011

References

External links

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