Financial Tribune- City Theater in Tehran is currently hosting an adaptation of the short story Dash Akol by eminent Iranian fiction writer Sadeq Hedayat (1903-51). Dash Akol was translated into English in 1979 by Richard Arnt and Mansur Ekhtiar. The title character is a respected and honorable man who has lost his familys wealth by helping his ...

Iranian film maker Mohammad Ali Sajjadi, 58, who started his artistic career with painting and calligraphy, has organized a painting exhibition in an effort to portray "the most enigmatic Iranian writer of the 20th century." The exhibition is titled 'Raga Pot', a solo event hosted by Shams Art Gallery in Tehran. It features 14 paintings Sajjadi ...

TEHRAN, Aug. 14 (MNA) Iranian writer Sadeq Hedayats The Stray Dog has recently been published in several parts in a Kazakh newspaper in Almaty. Ainash Kasymkyzy translated the story, which was published in several parts in Dala men Kala. In The Stray Dog (1942), Hedayat relates, through the eyes of a dog, a tragic human story of rejection and ...