Age, Biography and Wiki
Saman Arbabi was born on 1973 in Tehran, Iran, is a Journalist. Discover Saman Arbabi's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 50 years old?
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Journalist |
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50 years old |
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, 1973 |
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Tehran, Imperial State of Iran |
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Iran |
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He is a member of famous Journalist with the age 50 years old group.
Saman Arbabi Height, Weight & Measurements
At 50 years old, Saman Arbabi height not available right now. We will update Saman Arbabi's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
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Dating & Relationship status
He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Saman Arbabi Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Saman Arbabi worth at the age of 50 years old? Saman Arbabi’s income source is mostly from being a successful Journalist. He is from Iran. We have estimated
Saman Arbabi's net worth
, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Under Review |
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Pending |
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Under Review |
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Timeline
In 2013 Arbabi gave a talk at SXSW entitled Iranian Outlaws: Satire vs. Censorship in which, among other things, he unveiled "Weapons of Mouse Destruction," the largest global art project against internet censorship.
In an election-day special broadcast on June 14, 2013, OnTen featured a segment on street artist JR's Inside Out Project and aired a special message to the Iranian people from U2's Bono.
On January 20, 2011, Saman Arbabi and co-host Kambiz Hosseini made an appearance on The Daily Show as guests. At the end of the segment, Jon Stewart proclaimed, "I just want to tell you, you are like our show, but with real guts and I'm proud to be considered in the same fraternity of humor that you guys are in."
In 2011 he created the award-winning hit political satire show OnTen, which has become Iran's second most popular satire show, after Parazit, with over one million Facebook fans combined.
In 2009, Saman Arbabi created the show Parazit, a weekly half-hour Persian language satirical show. Parazit has been called "The Daily Show of Iran" and "Iran's best and least-loved show" and was one of the most popular shows in Iran, with an estimated 35 million viewers. Arbabi's progressive and edgy style was copied so much in Iran, it prompted Iranians to coin a new term: "Paraziti," meaning "like Parazit," to refer to fans who dressed him.
Saman Arbabi started his career as an intern for the popular DC-based radio show Diamond in the Morning after an ABC radio show producer, who liked his sense of humor, invited him to leave his job as a cook at Hooters and work with the station. In 2003, he was hired at Voice of America (VOA) as the first Iranian video journalist. As a video journalist and war correspondent, he covered Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, Syria, Egypt, Bahrain, UAE and the 2006 IAEA talks in Vienna, Austria. He produced and reported over 100 stories from the Middle East and North Africa.
Saman Arbabi (Persian: سامان اربابی ; born 1973) is an Iranian-American journalist, video director, cartoonist, host, creator, and executive producer of Voice of America's satirical television shows Parazit and OnTen. His work has been called "civic satire", comedy with a political and media mission.
Arbabi was born in Tehran, Iran in 1973 and moved to France at the age of 13 to avoid being drafted to fight in the Iran–Iraq War. He moved to the United States in 1986. He has a Bachelor of Science in Communications with a Minor in Art from the University of Maryland.
