Abbas Yari
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Abbas Yari (Persian: عباس ياری) is an iranian journalist and film critic.[1] 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. 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.[2] He was the executive director of this magazine from the start till 2021.[3] 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.[4]
In 2021 after the death of Massoud Mehrabi, he left Film to start a new magazine called Film Emrooz alongside Houshang Golmakani.[5]
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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[edit]- ^ "ناخدا خورشید"، انتخاب عباس یاری, Iran Book News Agency, 29 May 2007
- ^ Film in Iran: The Magazine and the Movies in Niemann Reports, Niemann Foundation for Journalism at Harvard
- ^ "ماهنامه فيلم, Magiran.com, 17 April 2011". Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
- ^ Who's who Archived 2010-08-16 at the Wayback Machine on NETPAC website
- ^ FILM EMROOZ Official Website Page