Shahram Tabe
- Duration
- 5:42 (minutes:seconds)
Biography
Shahram Tabe-Mohammadi is one of the founders and the director of Diaspora Film Festival. He is also a film critic, writer, translator, and a scientist. More than one hundred of his articles have appeared in Shahrvand (Canada), Film Magazine (Iran), Adabiat va Farhang (Germany), Peivand (Sweden), as well as banned Iranian newspapers such as Neshaat, Toos, and Fat'h. Before coming to Canada, he produced two popular TV programs in Iran: Fanoos-e Khial and the comedy mini-series Akvaan-e diiv.
As a scientist, Shahram holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and has completed his Post-Doctoral in the field of Membrane Separation. He has taught as a professor or worked as a research scientist at institutions such as University of Ottawa, National Research Council Canada, and University of Quebec in Montreal. He has published or presented more than thirty papers in scientific journals and international conferences.
Website: http://www.diasporafilmfest.com
Summary
In Iran, Shahram Tabe-Mohammadi was a young member of the revolutionary movement against the Shah. He wanted democracy for Iran, rather than the Islamic regime. One day he was warned by a friend that the secret police were after him and that within a matter of days he would be arrested and jailed or possibly executed. Immediately he packed up and went to Turkey. There, he spent six months, three of which were in Turkish jails. He speaks of the horrible experience he had there with 172 people squashed in a tiny room. Many people had disease, and at night they could hardly sleep as they had to fight off rats which were unafraid of humans. Eventually, by flying with false documents, he made it to numerous countries such as Sweden, Denmark, Russia and finally Canada.