Massoud Mehrabi

Massoud Mehrabi (1954 – 31 August 2020) was an Iranian journalist, writer and caricaturist. He studied cinema at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts of the University of Art (1977–1982). and later passed a film production management course at the Industrial Management Institute (1983–84). Mehrabi started his professional career as a journalist in 1970, writing articles for several papers. He was the president and publisher of The Film Monthly magazine (since 1981), The Iranian Cinema Yearbook (since 1992) and the English-language Film International quarterly magazine (since 1993). From 1982 to 1989, he worked at the economic desk of the Iranian National Television.

Mehrabi died at age 66 from a heart attack.

Career Mehrabi wrote books on cinema; his The History of Iranian Cinema (1983) was a best-selling book about Iranian cinema. His later book, A Hundred Years of Film Adverts and Film Posters in Iran (2012), is a bilingual study of a subject little covered previously.

Mehrabi's career roles included being the president and publisher of:

1. Film monthly, in Persian, a film magazine in Iran. Founded in 1981, when there was no other serious film journal and all pre-Revolutionary film journals had ceased to publish for several years, it attracted a number of young film devotees to its staff as writers and critics, many of whom went on to publish magazines of their own.

2. Iranian Cinema Yearbook in Persian (published annually since 1992), which covers all the important film events of the year, and reviews every new film released in Iran.

3. Film International] quarterly, in English (founded 1993), which significantly introduced Iranian cinema, past and present, to the Western audience.

Mehrabi, always interested in caricatures, was a caricaturist and a graphic artist for various Iranian publications since 1970 and participated in several Iranian and international caricature exhibitions.