Mayar Zokaei

Mayar Zokaei (born July 31, 1979) is an Iranian American sports and entertainment agent currently based in Los Angeles and New York. Zokaei also works as a media and sports journalist and periodically contributes to the Los Angeles Times, NYLA Magazineand the Los Angeles Daily News.

Zokaei is the son of publishing magnate and American journalist Mehdi Zokaei, publisher and editor in chief of JAVANAN Magazine, the largest bilingual Persian magazine in the world. Raised in Los Angeles, Zokaei graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he received a degrees in sociology. While at UCLA, Zokaei worked as a sports reporter and columnist for the Daily Bruin. During his sophomore year at UCLA, Zokaei was hired as a part-time free-lance reporter/stringer for the sports section of the L.A. Daily News, before being hired away the next year by the L.A. Times, at the time the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States (after the New York Times). Upon graduation from UCLA, Zokaei was hired as Sports Agate Editor at the before leaving his post after to pursue his doctorate's degree in law at Southwestern University School of Law. Zokaei eventually returned to the L.A. Times as a part-time sports writer.

Zokaei also serves as an advisor for well-known Warner Music recording artists Basshunter, Arash, Günther and the Sunshine Girls, DJ Aligator and DJ Ali Payami, Bodog Records artist and former Miss Canada Nazanin Afshin-Jam, and NBA center Hamed Haddadi of the Memphis Grizzlies.

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Name	Zokaei, Mayar
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Short description	American journlist
Date of birth	July 31, 1979
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