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All the books by Maziar Bahari adapted to cinema and television

Maziar Bahari is known for being the author of the book Rosewater, first published in 2011, which was adapted to cinema by Jon Stewart in 2014.
We invite you to watch, read, and vote for either the adaptation or the original, and join the debate on whether the book or the movie is better.
Rosewater. Poster of the 2014 movie and cover of the 2011 book
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Rosewater
Maziar Bahari, Aimee Molloy, 2011
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Rosewater
Jon Stewart, 2014

In 2009, London-based Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari is detained in Iran after he reports on violence against protesters of the country’s presidential election, as well as giving a satirical interview with Jason Jones of The Daily Show. While his pregnant fiancée waits for him, Bahari spends 118 days at Evin Prison being brutally interrogated.