Saeed Kamali Dehghan
{{Short description|Iranian-British journalist}}
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Saeed Kamali Dehghan ({{langx|fa|سعید کمالی دهقان}}; born 1 May 1985 in Karaj, Iran)[https://www.theguardian.com/profile/saeedkamalidehghan Saeed Kamali Dehghan profile] at The Guardian. is an Iranian-British journalist who writes for The Guardian.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2010/nov/24/guardian-journalist-award-iranian-protests|title=Guardian journalist wins award for Iranian protest coverage|first=David|last=Batty|date=24 November 2010|publisher=|accessdate=13 June 2017|newspaper=The Guardian}} He was named as the 2010 Journalist of the Year in Britain by the Foreign Press Association.{{cite web|url=http://www.fpalondon.org/showarticle.pl?id=892|title=The Foreign Press Association Media Awards 2010 – Winners|publisher=FPA|location=London|access-date=13 June 2017|archive-date=7 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110107232554/http://www.fpalondon.org/showarticle.pl?id=892|url-status=dead}} He is a staff journalist for The Guardian working from its London offices, and has been an Iran correspondent from Tehran for the newspaper in the past, especially in summer 2009. He is a co-producer of the 2010 HBO documentary For Neda,{{cite web|url=http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/for-neda/synopsis.html|title=HBO: For Neda: Synopsis|website=HBO|accessdate=13 June 2017}} which was a recipient of the 70th annual Peabody Award.{{cite web|url=http://www.peabody.uga.edu/news/event.php?id=73|title=70th Annual Peabody Awards Winners Announced|publisher=|access-date=13 June 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110404001754/http://www.peabody.uga.edu/news/event.php?id=73|archive-date=4 April 2011}}
Biography
File:Antony Thomas, Saeed Kamali Dehghan and Carleen L. Hsu, May 2011 (1).jpg, Kamali Dehghan and producer Carleen L. Hsu with a Peabody Award, May 2011]]
Kamali Dehghan was born on 1 May 1985 in Karaj, a city near Tehran, the capital of Iran. He graduated in 2011 from the City University Department of Journalism, with a Master of Arts (MA) degree in International Journalism,{{cite web|url=http://www.city.ac.uk/arts/journalism/recent-awards|title=Recent awards|website=City, University of London|accessdate=13 June 2017|archive-date=24 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120524144954/http://www.city.ac.uk/arts/journalism/recent-awards|url-status=dead}} after receiving a scholarship from Open Society Institute. His BA was in Rolling Stock Engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology.
He has written in Persian, English, and French for several different newspapers around the world, including Le Monde,{{cite web|url=http://abo.lemonde.fr/?objet_id=592942&offre=ARCHIVES&type_item=ART_ARCH_30J|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171119155816/https://abo.lemonde.fr/?offre=ARCHIVES&type_item=ART_ARCH_30J&objet_id=592942|url-status=dead|archive-date=19 November 2017|title=Abonnement Le Monde|website=Le Monde.fr|accessdate=13 June 2017}} Shargh and Etemaad. He covered Tehran unrest after the Iranian presidential election, 2009, for the foreign media, including CNN,{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jun/13/saeed-dehghan-iran-exile |title=The day I fled Iran in terror and left my family behind – a journalist's story|first=Saeed |last=Kamali Dehghan|newspaper=The Observer|date=13 June 2010}} CBC,{{Cite web |date=14 June 2013 |title=Voting for a new president in Iran {{!}} The Current |url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/jun-14-2013-1.2909791/voting-for-a-new-president-in-iran-1.2909796 |access-date=22 October 2023 |website=CBC}} France 24, Channel 4{{Cite web |date=2018-02-02 |title=Saeed Kamali Dehghan on Iran veils protests: 'It's sparking a debate in Iran that I have not seen before' |first=Cathy|last=Newman|url=https://www.channel4.com/news/saeed-kamali-dehghan-on-iran-veils-protests-its-sparking-a-debate-in-iran-that-i-have-not-seen-before |access-date=2023-10-23 |website=Channel 4 News |language=en-GB}} and The Guardian.{{cite web|url=http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2009/06/iran-i-will-continue-to-report-but-i-fear-that-i-may-be-arrested/|title=Iran: "I will continue to report, but I fear that I may be arrested" - Index on Censorship|first= Saeed |last=Kamali Dehghan |website=www.indexoncensorship.org|date=16 June 2009 |access-date=13 June 2017}}
= ''For Neda'' (2010) =
Saeed Kamali Dehghan was a co-producer of the 2010 HBO documentary For Neda.{{cite web |title=Saeed Kamali Dehghan |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3944288/ |access-date=13 June 2017 |website=IMDb}} On 3 March 2020, he said he regrets making that documentary because "I was naive to believe the Western narrative about her death. As a journalist, I was sent to Iran to humanize their narrative naively, but I didn't know their narrative. When they got my footage from me, from then on, I was nobody, and I was deeply upset about the film, even though I didn’t show it at the time."{{Cite web |date=2020-03-03 |title=Guardian reporter speaks out on Neda Agha-Soltan, Jamal Khashoggi, Iran International TV, Masih Alinejad|first=Mohammad|last=Homaeefar |url=http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/445759/Guardian-reporter-speaks-out-on-Neda-Agha-Soltan-Jamal-Khashoggi |access-date=2020-03-04 |website=Tehran Times |language=en}}
= ''Twelve Plus One'' (2017) =
Saeed Kamali Dehghan's first book, Twelve Plus One, was published in Iran in January 2017 by Ofoq Publications. It is a collection of his interviews with 12 writers and one film-maker, including Mario Vargas Llosa, Paul Auster, EL Doctorow and David Lynch.{{cite web |title=Maybe We Descend From The Trees: A reading with Fereshteh Ahmadi - What's On - Free Word |url=https://www.freewordcentre.com/whats-on/maybe-we-descend-from-the-trees?spektrix_bounce=true |access-date=13 June 2017 |publisher=}} He has conducted several other original interviews with internationally known writers including John Barth, E. L. Doctorow, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Amélie Nothomb, Andreï Makine, Isabel Allende, Tzvetan Todorov, T. C. Boyle, Alain de Botton and Noam Chomsky.
= Murder of Jamal Khashoggi (2018) =
On 8 November 2018, Kamali Dehghan tweeted that Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi had been murdered because he was planning on publishing details about the Iranian government's ties to Mohammed bin Salman and Saud al-Qahtani. Shortly afterwards, he deleted the tweets.{{Cite web |title=افشاگری خبرنگار گاردین: "خاشقجی" منبع مالی شبکه"ایران اینترنشنال" را لو داد |url=https://www.asriran.com/fa/news/639403/%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B4%D8%A7%DA%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1-%DA%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%86-%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%82%D8%AC%DB%8C-%D9%85%D9%86%D8%A8%D8%B9-%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C-%D8%B4%D8%A8%DA%A9%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%B1%D8%A7-%D9%84%D9%88-%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AF |access-date=14 May 2023 |website=Asriran |language=fa}} The Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, dismissed the comments as "improbable".{{Cite news |date=12 November 2018 |title=ظریف ادعای خبرنگار گاردین درباره ایران اینترنشنال را رد کرد |language=fa |work=Iran International |url=https://iranintl.com/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86/%D8%B8%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%81-%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%B9%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1-%DA%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%86-%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%87-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%B1%D8%A7-%D8%B1%D8%AF-%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%AF |url-status=dead |access-date=14 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727145017/https://iranintl.com/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86/%D8%B8%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%81-%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%B9%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1-%DA%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%86-%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%87-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%B1%D8%A7-%D8%B1%D8%AF-%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%AF |archive-date=27 July 2020}}
Awards
Saeed Kamali Dehghan was named the 2010 Journalist of the Year by the Foreign Press Association (FPA) in London. His co-produced film For Neda received the FPA award for the Best Documentary of the Year,{{cite web|url=http://www.fpalondon.org/showarticle.pl?id=892|title=Saeed Kamali Dehghan wins FPA awards for the Journalist of the Year and Best Documentary of the Year|publisher=|access-date=13 June 2017|archive-date=7 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110107232554/http://www.fpalondon.org/showarticle.pl?id=892|url-status=dead}}
and was also a recipient at the 70th annual Peabody Awards at a ceremony hosted by Larry King at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York on 23 May 2011.{{cite web|url=https://www.mediavillage.com/article/larry-king-keeps-things-moving-as-peabody-award-winners-bask-in-the-limelight-hillary-atkin/print/|title=Larry King Keeps Things Moving as Peabody Award Winners Bask in the Limelight|first=Hillary |last=Atkin|date=30 May 2011|website=mediavillage.com}}
References
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External links
- [http://saeedkd.com/en/ Saeed Kamali Dehghan] official website
- [https://www.theguardian.com/profile/saeedkamalidehghan Column archive] in The Guardian
- {{IMDb name|3944288}}
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