In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran’s volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media, he made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped interview with comedian Jason Jones. The interview was intended as satire, but if the Tehran authorities got the joke they didn’t like it – and it would quickly came back to haunt Bahari when he was rousted from his family home and thrown into prison.
Genre: Drama Actors: Ahmad Massad, Alaadin Khasawneh, Alex Klaus, Ali Elayan, Ali Hussein, Amir El-Masry, Amir Rahimzadeh, Andrew Gower, Arian Moayed, Ayman Sharaiha, Bassam Hanna, Claire Foy, Dimitri Leonidas, Ed Ward, Eyad Zoubi, Firas Fanni, Gael García Bernal, Golshifteh Farahani, Haluk Bilginer, Hamid Masri, Hamza Muhaisen, Hannah Douglass, Hassan Sha'er, Jason Jones, Jonathan Hopper, Kambiz Hosseini, Kim Bodnia, Lindsey Hilsum, Manaf Irani, Manar Mughrabi, Miles Jupp, Mohammad Abdel Raheem, Mohammad Nizar, Mohammad Sami, Nafisa Ghazi, Nasser Faris, Nidal Ali, Numan Acar, Saif Goussous, Saro Karaoghlanian, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Wissam Tobaileh, Zeid Kattan Directors: Jon Stewart Production: Busboy Productions, International Traders, OddLot Entertainment
