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Alexis Kouros (born 1961, inKermanshah,Iran) is anIranian-Finnish writer, documentary-maker, director, and producer.[1] Kouros is ofIranian Kurdish heritage.[2]
His first book,Gondwana's Children, won the Finlandia Junior Award in 1997. His first film was the2000 documentary,Waiting for Godot at De Gaulle, the story ofMehran Karimi Nasseri.[3]
He also directed a documentary calledWithout My Daughter[4] in response to the 1991 Hollywood movie,Not Without My Daughter. He started his production company Dream Catcher. The company began publishing Finland's first English language monthly calledSixDegrees in 2003.Helsinki Times, a weekly English newspaper, was established by Dream Catcher in April 2007.[5]
Kouros went on to become the editor-in-chief for theHelsinki Times.[6][7] A paper version ofHelsinki Times was published intabloid format[8] and was eventually discontinued in February 2015, but continued in web format.[9]
SixDegrees continued to be published daily online, as well as monthly in print, until 2016, when the latter of which was discontinued.[10]
The website has republished articles from thePeople's Daily, the official newspaper of theCentral Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.[11] In 2020, theHelsinki Times published an article from thePeople's Daily which included aconspiracy theory about the origins of COVID-19.[11] TheHelsinki Times said the "barter-exchange" arrangement with thePeople's Daily was an attempt to balance western media coverage which it said was "at times extremely one-sided and biased".[11]
SixDegrees published its last article in 2024.[12] In March 2025, Kouros announced that theHelsinki Times had been acquired by an unspecified "international media company."[13]
Iranin kurdi,kirjailija, lääkäri Alexis Kouros
{{cite web}}:Missing or empty|title= (help)[dead link]On Feb. 22, People's Daily ran a report highlighting speculation that the U.S. military brought the virus to China, pushing the story globally through inserts in newspapers such as the Helsinki Times in Finland and the New Zealand Herald.
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