Ebrahim Nabavi is a diminutive man with an oversized sense of humor — and a sarcastic wit that has twice landed him in jail. Through his writings, Nabavi gleefully sheds light on what he regards as some of Iran’s paradoxes. The 50-year-old Nabavi has been living and working in Belgium for about six years — a self-imposed exile prompted by harassment from Iranian authorities related to his work. Yet he still manages to follow developments in Iran very closely, stay in tune with his audience, and occasionally succeed in rocking Iran’s political scene from afar.
