Jahan Salehi is an Iranian-American entrepreneur, and progressive activist who is best known for his work with Agence Global, a left-leaning news and commentary syndicate, and for his role as Managing Director of the Los Angeles Times Syndicate's European operations. He has written widely on technology and publishing, as well as film reviews and commentaries. Jahan Salehi was born in Iran in 1954 to an American mother and Iranian father.

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  • Jahan Salehi is an Iranian-American entrepreneur, and progressive activist who is best known for his work with Agence Global, a left-leaning news and commentary syndicate, and for his role as Managing Director of the Los Angeles Times Syndicate's European operations. He has written widely on technology and publishing, as well as film reviews and commentaries. Jahan Salehi was born in Iran in 1954 to an American mother and Iranian father. His family moved to the United States in 1960, and he grew up in Lexington, Kentucky, attending Transylvania University. As a freelance photographer in the late 1970's he traveled throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. He did graduate work at Ohio State University (Middle East studies) and with Richard Bulliet at Columbia University (History, Middle East and Africa). From 1988 to 1999, he founded and served as chief executive officer of several technology and health information companies in Vermont (Maya Computer), New York (Solute Inc. ), and North Carolina (Healant Inc.). A regular speaker at Macworld Expo, Salehi worked closely with Stuart Gitlow at America Online and at Healant, the company Salehi and Gitlow launched together. Salehi left Healant to serve as Managing Director of European Operations of the Los Angeles Times Syndicate (now Tribune Media Services International), based in London from 2001-2003. In 2004 he founded a progressive commentary agency called Agence Global, which syndicates the columns of Rami G. Khouri, Patrick Seale, Nadia Hijab, Peter Kwong, Immanuel Wallerstein, as well as the left/liberal magazines The Nation and Le Monde diplomatique. He is a graduate of Transylvania University (1976, BA, Humanities) and Columbia University (1986, MA, History). He is the author of a number of published technology and history articles, including a chapter entitled "Telecommunications in the 20th Century" in the Columbia Encyclopedia of the 20th Century, New York: Columbia University Press, 1995 (co-authored with Richard Bulliet).
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  • Jahan Salehi is an Iranian-American entrepreneur, and progressive activist who is best known for his work with Agence Global, a left-leaning news and commentary syndicate, and for his role as Managing Director of the Los Angeles Times Syndicate's European operations. He has written widely on technology and publishing, as well as film reviews and commentaries. Jahan Salehi was born in Iran in 1954 to an American mother and Iranian father.
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