The Man of Turbulent Days of Iranian Journalism Introduction and review

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The Man of Iran's Turbulent Journalism Days *Zahra Jafari Senior Communications Expert (Refer to page image)*Ghasemi, Seyed Farid, Terrorizing the Journalist: Mohammad Masoud from Birth to "The Man of Today". Tehran: Nashr-e Mordad, Autumn 2009, 152 pp, ISBN: 978-600-5327-15-1 The book "Terrorizing the Journalist," written by Seyed Farid Ghasemi, is dedicated in detail to examining the life of one of the old journalists in the field of Iranian press and shows the political and economic conditions of that era and its impact on the early periods of Iranian journalism. Mohammad Masoud, an Iranian journalist and novelist and director of the newspaper Mord-e Emrouz, was born in the year 1280 SH in the city of Qom. His father was a skilled craftsman, an intellectual, and a supporter of the Constitutional Movement and a resident of Qom. As Seyed Farid Ghasemi mentions in this book, Mohammad Masoud has one or two works that are solely focused on his social life, while the rest of the works relate to the personal life of this journalist, which include biographies or memoirs, and they have rarely examined his life with a research-oriented perspective (p. Examining the life of this journalist shows that he in &%16413OKKG164G% (Refer to page image) Throughout his life, he was engaged in various occupations, including calligraphy, painting, bookselling, bookbinding labor, automobile repair, night journalism, alchemy, teaching, piecework, running a writing house, working as an employee of the Ministry of Education, and writing for the press and books.