At the age of three Sahebdivani fled with his parents from Iran to the Netherlands, following the Iranian revolution. In his twenties he became a storyteller at the Tropenmuseum, motivated to continue his parents’ Iranian traditions of storytelling and music making. His passion led him to found Mezrab in 2004, an orginization that started as a small monthly gathering in a tea-house, and in the span of ten years has grown into an established cultural center with a multidisciplinary programme offered five days per week.

As his cultural center grew, so did his career as an artist. Together with various storytellers, actors and musicians he performs at theatres and festivals nationally and internationally. In 2014 he was chosen as the Netherlands’ Best Storyteller of the Year. In 2017 together with storyteller Raphael Rodan he won the Amsterdam Fringe Gold Award for their play My Father Held a Gun. In 2020 Sahebdivani’s cultural center won the Amsterdamprijs voor de Kunst (Amsterdam Prize for the Arts) for Best Achievements.