ʿAlīrezā Mīrāsadallāh

Alireza Mirasadollah (born 10 June 1973) is an Iranian writer, painter, journalist, doll-maker, translator, and filmmaker.

Mirasadollah began his career as a writer in 1993, producing works of poetry and short fiction. He started working as a journalist in 2004 at Chelcheragh weekly, where he served as editor of the world music and visual arts pages. He has also written occasionally for the newspapers Shargh and Etemad.

His first painting exhibition was held in 1994 in Tehran at the Naghsh-e Jahan Gallery. Since then, he has held several exhibitions of paintings, photographs, and dolls in New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Mirasadollah is currently a producer at BBC Persian Television.

Until 2009, he submitted his books for publication to Nashr-e Markaz. After emigrating to England, he began publishing some of his works online—books that had not received publication permits in Iran. He is among the first Iranian writers to use Facebook as a platform for serial long-form storytelling. Terrorists Also Cry was written daily on Facebook over a two-month period in 2009 and drew considerable attention from users. He later published the short story collection The Girl Who Slept with the Wolf, followed by The Iranian Dog and Mamad, the Man Who Died, also on Facebook. These last two books are novel-like memoirs written in a sharp, incisive style.