Maziar Bahari is an Iranian-Canadian journalist, filmmaker, and human rights activist. He served as a reporter for Newsweek from 1998 to 2011. In 2009, he was incarcerated by the Iranian government from June 21 to October 17. His experiences led him to write the family memoir, *Then They Came for Me*, which became a New York Times best seller and was later adapted into Jon Stewart's 2014 film, *Rosewater*.