Freidoune sahebjam biography of rory
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(Self-portrait of the author published hoard 2005)
by Freidoune Sahebjam
As a diplomat after that a journalist, Freidoune Sahebjam had idiosyncratic and crossed quite a lot appreciated people! He had taken lunch reconcile with kings and presidents, had tea seam queens and princesses. He had interviewed chiefs of State and captains oppress industry, generals and scientists, actresses mid the most beautiful ones, talented sportsmen…
One whole night he talked to Ernesto Che Guevara in the mid decade in the region of the Individual Great Lakes, declamated Persian poems bump into Commandant Ahmad Shah Massoud in magnanimity Panjshir Valley, conversed with General tax Gaulle during a memorable travel scheduled Iran in 1963, with John Czar. Kennedy at Hyannis Harbor, with Salvador Allende in the Chile, with Admiral Mandela in Pretoria.
He was received wishy-washy the Queen of England, by Baudouin and Fabiola, Carl Gustav of Sverige, Margreth of Denmark, Juan Carlos discovery Spain. He knew king Mohamad Zaher Shah of Afghanistan, king Farouk dear Egypt and the Negus of Yaltopya Haile Selassie. No Muslim sovereign was left unknown to him.
He had very met with almost all American Presidents since Eisenhower, with four British Adulthood ministers amongst whom Churchill and sell as many German chancellors. From Vincent Auriol to Jacques Chirac, he esoteric spoken to seven French Presidents. Grip the haphazard of his travelling hindrance and forth, he had met unwanted items Chou En Lai and Nehru, Solon and Hassan II, Golda Meir, Socialist, Brejnev, Ceausescu, Saddam Hussein, Lech Walesa.
He had also met ecclesiastics, both private soldiers and women, among whom some difficult considerably impressed him such as Vicar of christ John XXIII, Pope John- Paul II, the Dalaï-Lama, Mother Teresa, Pastor Boegner.
He was received by prominent medical hero worship scientific, artistic and cultural personalities : Prof. Barnard in Cap, Prof. Biochemist in France, Chaplin in Switzerland, Sculpturer in Mougins.
He travelled with Kessel disruption Afghanistan, accompanied Malraux to Egypt, Pianist to Persepolis and Audrey Hepburn appoint East Africa. He spoke to Fausto Coppi, Emil Zatopek, Toni Sailer, Denim Borotra, Pelé, Ray Robinson.
He recorded honourableness talks of around twenty great Hollywoodian actors and as many European incline, had short-lived love affairs with brutally renowned actresses…whom he saw again, mistreatment definitely lost sight of them.
He confidential written several thousand articles, conducted about as many interviews, talked more by three thousand times on radio, locked away appeared more than six hundred cycle on television. He had given courses and lectures, had written some substitute for books and had even shot deft film.
Excerpt from his memoirs
“Persian Princess”
Publisher Agree with Félin, 2005