Ali Dehbashi
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Biography
Ali Dehbashi, born on March 21, 1958, in Qazvin, Iran, is a prominent journalist, writer, and literary researcher. He has been the editor-in-chief of the cultural and literary magazine Bukhara since 1998. Before that, he served for seven years as the editor of the monthly magazine Kelk. Dehbashi began his cultural work in his youth and collaborated with renowned scholars like Abdolhossein Zarrinkoub and Gholamhossein Yousefi. He is also the organizer of the “Nights of Bukhara,” a series of events honoring cultural and literary figures.
Known For
Ali Dehbashi, the editor-in-chief of Bukhara Magazine, is forced to vacate his rented office. While struggling with asthma and the pressure of publishing a special issue dedicated to Ferdowsi, he continues to honor artists and visit ailing cultural figures. Homeless and unwell, his devotion to Iran’s literary legacy keeps him going.
Bukhara Chronicles
Valiasr Street, seventeen kilometers long, connects the south of Tehran to the north and the Alborz mountain range. When this street was built, the parties decorated it with more than 60,000 plane saplings. But today, only about eight thousand plane trees are standing on this street.
Plane Grove
A Documentary about Ali Dehbashi (Persian: علی دهباشی). He is an Iranian journalist, Iranologist, researcher and writer. Dehbashi is the writer and editor-in-chief of Bukhara magazine, a periodical magazine on arts and culture in Persian published in Tehran.
Hello, I am Dehbashi
A historical recount of the foundation, establishment, and expansion of 'Amirkabir Publication Institute'. This publication house was considered Iran's most influential and biggest publication institute in the 1940s-80s years. The film looks at the life of the late Abdorrahim Jafari, Amirkabir's founder, and the institute's sad ending, early 1980s when the revolutionary court orders the institute to be confiscated. Mr Jafari was then stripped of the institute's ownership and forced to retire. The documentary 'In Search of Illumination' is narrated by Abdorrahim Jafari and reviews different periods of his life and his activities in the Amirkabir Institute.
In Search of Illumination
A narrative of the life and works of Bahram Sadeghi (Iranian poet and modernist fiction writer)