Abbas Yari

Abbas Yari (Persian: عباس ياری) is an iranian journalist and film critic.

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.

[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.

[5] In 1988, he was one of the founding members of the foundation of art critics and writers about Iranian cinema.

Abbas Yari in spring 2008