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Mother was illiterate and father who had some traditional education never knew which school I went to and which classes I attended. It was enough for them that I went out every morning and came home in the late afternoon or evening. Therefore I can’t trust them very much that I was born in an August 23rd, in Isfahan, Iran. Particularly when one knows at that time my “fatherland” was occupied by the American, Russian and British armies and as I heard later; “No donkey could even recognize it’s master” during those days.
What I remember from different schools is that I played volleyball, basketball and chess and that for a while I was athletics “hero” of the city, editor of different schools wallpapers, wrote plays, acted in them with my class
Mother was illiterate and father who had some traditional education never knew which school I went to and which classes I attended. It was enough for them that I went out every morning and came home in the late afternoon or evening. Therefore I can’t trust them very much that I was born in an August 23rd, in Isfahan, Iran. Particularly when one knows at that time my “fatherland” was occupied by the American, Russian and British armies and as I heard later; “No donkey could even recognize it’s master” during those days.
What I remember from different schools is that I played volleyball, basketball and chess and that for a while I was athletics “hero” of the city, editor of different schools wallpapers, wrote plays, acted in them with my classmates at school or “at home with the gang”.
After school I had to travel all over Iran, living and working in different cities. My university studies and my means of making a living from then on were to run parallel. I studied sociology in one university, dental college in another (never finished), theatre and cinema in the third and finally (not very much) completed a Masters in Sociology of Art in the fourth university. All this time I was living by teaching, first in primary schools, then in high schools, then colleges and so on, writing manuscripts for theatre, film and television, act in them and so on.

- Did you not want to write any more about another parallel line being the political distractions in your life, from nationalist to communist at the same time you were about to become a member of writers union?

All in all I spend some years of my life in prisons under Shah’s and Sheik’s

– understanding that you don’t want to discriminate between the two – i.e that they are much of a muchness and therefore not “The Shah and “The Ayatollah”)!

Things were (finaly) about to stabilise when the Revolution came and cut the stability process. Then migrant life began again, this time outside the country (second half of my life!). The first six to seven years were spent in Asia–among other places in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India (mostly) –and then later in Europe, where I have now been living (in and out) for more than 30 years (exclusive 7 years in Asia).
During the second period of my migrant life, I’ve been either working as teacher and researcher in different universities, writing manuscripts for film, theatre and different anthologies, working as “cultural consultant” etc. and sometimes I’ve been jobless. This time there hasn’t been much stability in my communication tools, as in the last 35 years or so, I have communicated with the world around in many different languages, none of which I know perfectly and there is only one; Persian; in which I still feel proud to formulate myself. One could say that my pen and tongue have been one unbroken thread linking me to my schooldays - mostly as a storyteller -less as a writer.

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نه هر که طرف کله کج نهاد و تند نشست کلاه داری و آیین سروری داند
غلام همت آن رند عافیت سوزم / که در گداصفتی کیمیاگری داند
وفا و عهد نکو باشد ار بیاموزی/ وگرنه هر که تو بینی ستمگری داند
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هزار نکته باریک تر ز مو این جاست ه هر که سر بتراشد قلندری داند
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	شاهنامه، به نثر 3.67 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	ساره خاتون 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	رستم؛ از تولد تا مرگ 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1992	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Snapshot, an anthology of short stories by Ali Ohadi (Goodreads Author), Lise Helledie, Kaare Bluitgen, Jakob Strid, Dortea Birkedal, .... 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1998	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	روزگار بی حکایتی 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1390	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.”
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“Words are the most beautiful things existed in the world, but they die as fast as they were born, unless you convert them to act!
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“Most truth's are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.”
― Edward R. Murrow

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“You can’t start out again in life, that’s a carriage ride you only take once, but with a book in your hand, no matter how confusing and perplexing it might be, once you’ve finished it, you can always go back to the beginning; if you like, you can read it through again, in order to figure out what you couldn’t understand before, in order to understand life.”
― Orhan Pamuk, Sessiz Ev

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