Born in March 23,1954, Gorgan-Iran
Starting professional career: 1972 as a journalist and film critic
Graduate of cinema and television from College of Dramatic Arts, Tehran, 1982
Editor and one of the founders of FILM Monthly (1982), the oldest and most prestigious film magazine of Iran, and FILM International (1993), the sole English magazine about Iranian cinema

Paris Texas (Translation of screenplays) Writer: Sam Shepard, 1989
The White Sheik, Variety Lights (Translation of screenplays) Writer: Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano and Tullio Pinelli, 1992
La Strada (Translation of screenplays) Writer: Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano and Tullio Pinelli, 1995
La Notte (Translation of screenplays) Writer: Michelangelo Antonioni, Ennio Flaiano, Tonino Guerra, 1997
Cinema Paradiso (Translation of screenplays) Writer: Giuseppe Tornatore, 1997
The Gentleman Actor (original about well-known veteran Iranian actor, Ezzatollah Entezami), 1997
The Sound of Music: The Making of America’s Favorite Movie (Translation) Writer: Julia Antopol Hirsch, 2000
Book of Dead-Lock (monography on Amir Naderi's second film, 1973), 2007
Out of Saam alley (Reviews on Iranian Films), 2010

STARDUST-STRICKEN; Mohsen Makhmalbaf: A Portrait, (Documentary), 1996