About

Stories of migration, memory and belonging.

Ramin Mahjouri is a writer, poet, journalist, and broadcaster whose career spans more than three decades across Persian and Canadian media. Through print, radio, and television, he has told stories shaped by migration, memory, and belonging, with a sustained focus on human vulnerability and resilience.

Journalism

For more than thirty years, Ramin has reported across Persian and Canadian media, in print and on air. His journalism returns again and again to the people behind the headlines — their vulnerability, and their resilience. For many years he was editor, and later publisher, of Paivand, the weekly Persian newspaper serving Vancouver’s Iranian community.

Broadcasting

Through radio and television, he has brought stories of migration, memory and belonging to Persian and Canadian audiences alike, hosting Persian-language programmes on Shaw’s multicultural channel and on radio. On screen, he provided voices for the National Film Board’s animated feature Window Horses and coached its lead in reciting Persian poetry, and his own life opens the documentary My Dream Goes All the Way to Iran.

Writing

As a writer and poet, Ramin works where personal history meets collective truth. His book, Through Sun, Snow and Rain, continues that work. In his words:

“The story lived in me for forty years, brewing in my head, and it had to be told. Once I started writing, it poured out and wrote itself.”

From Tehran to the North Shore

Born in Tehran, he immigrated to Canada in 1983 at the age of eighteen. After graduating in Communication Studies from Concordia University, he settled in Vancouver, where he has lived on the North Shore for more than thirty years.

Literary work

Books

  • Through Sun, Snow and Rain

  • The Pigeon Fancier — a novel

  • Fading Mom — living with Alzheimer’s

Work in progress

  • Kasimir — a novel

  • A Little Piece of Blue Sky — a memoir

  • The Silence Between — a collection of poems

Artistic work

Beyond journalism and literature, Mahjouri is a visual artist and sculptor. A member of the North Vancouver Art Council, his calligraphic paintings have been exhibited in solo and group shows throughout western Canada and the United States. His artistic practice includes live edge wood works and sculptures created from repurposed materials.

Across disciplines, his work is guided by a commitment to telling human stories that bridge cultures and illuminate shared experience, where personal history intersects with collective truth.