BIOGRAPHY OF MEHDI SEMSAR

Date of birth: 1928 in BOUSHER city (south of Iran)
Death: Friday 14 January 2005
Group: Human sciences
Field: Journalism
He obtained his diploma in SHIRAZ city and then went to Tehran University to study pharmaceutical education. Along with it tried to get bachelor of journalism.
He translated some books by name: rescuing Isfahan and my century.
Great men such as DOCTOR MOHAMMAD EBRAHIM BASTANI PARIZI, DOCTOR KAZEM MOTAMED NEJAD, DOCTOR FEIZ FAYAZ and DOCTOR ABOLHASAN ZIYA were his friends and colleagues.
SEMSAR wrote his thesis about journalism of 1941 to 1953 period.
Mr. ABDOLRAHMAN FARAMARZI was his master in journalism.
At the age of 21 started to be a journalist and worked with KEYHAN newspaper. He was promoted to the KEYHAN editorship.
Meanwhile he was translating books and literary works too. He had positive and acting presence in AZERBAEEJAN event, nationalization of oil and 1953 military coup in Tehran. He has valuable translations and significant literary works for public audiences. His literary writing style was new and very close to the writings of DOCTOR MOHAMMAD EBRAHIM PBASTANI PARIZI. His literary views were based on simple writings.
Many of his important articles were published in KEYHAN newspaper.
He liked journalism more than medical job.