Ervand Abrahamian (B.A., M.A., Oxford University; Ph.D. Columbia University), an Armenian born in Iran and raised in England, is well qualified by education and experience to teach world and Middle Ea…
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French ph…
Touraj Atabaki is a professor of the "Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia" at the Department of History of the University of Amsterdam and a senior research fellow at the International …
Václav Havel was a Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. He was the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia (1989–92) and the first President of the Czech Republic (1993–2003)…
David Gilbert Christian is an Anglo-American historian and scholar of Russian history notable for creating and spearheading an interdisciplinary approach known as Big History. He grew up in Africa and…
علیاکبر سعيدیسيرجانی، اديب، پژوهشگر و نويسنده ايرانی در تاريخ بيست آذر ماه هزار و سيصد و ده در سيرجان متولد شد. ماه های آخر زندگانی جسمی او در اسارت جمهوری اسلامی گذشت. بی هيچ تماسی با دنيای آزاد. ا…
صادق زیباكلام مفرد در سال ۱۳۲۷ درمحله بازارچه آب منگول تهران متولد شد. وی استاد علوم سیاسی، نگارنده و دانشور ایرانی با گرایشهای اصلاحگرایانه و نوآزادیخواهانه است. او دکترای علوم سیاسی از دانشگاه بر…
Akbar Ganji ( born 31 January 1960 in tehran) is an Iranian journalist and writer. He has been described as a "wildly popular pro-democracy journalist" who has crossed press censorship "red lines" reg…
Sufism inspired writings of Persian poet and mystic Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi; these writings express the longing of the soul for union with the divine.
رضا قاسمی در ۱۰ دی ماه ۱۳۲۸ در اصفهان به دنیا آمد اما اصلیت جنوبی دارد. اولین اثر او نمایشنامه کسوف بود که در ۱۸ سالگی نوشت و دو سال بعد در دانشگاه تهران به روی صحنه برد. در سال …
Christian Bobin is a French author and poet. He received the 1993 Prix des Deux Magots for the book Le Très-Bas (translated into English in 1997 by Michael H. Kohn and published under two titles: The …
Writer, critic and editor, Hooshang Golshiri, the prominent Iranian literary figure, published his first collection of short stories, As Always, in 1958. His second…
Amir Cheheltan was born in 1956 in Tehran and has published eight novels, five volumes of short stories and a screenplay. Due to censorship, his first novel, The Mourning of Qassem, was …
احمد شاملو، الف. بامداد یا الف. صبح (۲۱ آذر ۱۳۰۴ - ۲ مرداد ۱۳۷۹)، شاعر، نویسنده، روزنامهنگار، مترجم و از بنیانگذاران و دبیران کانون نویسندگان ایران در پیش و پس از انقلاب بود. شاملو تحصیلات کلاسیک نا…
احمد اعطا با نام ادبی احمد محمود (۴ دی ۱۳۱۰، اهواز – ۱۲ مهر ۱۳۸۱، تهران) نویسندهٔ معاصر ایرانی بود. او را پیرو مکتب رئالیسم اجتماعی میدانند. معروفترین رمان او، همسایهها، در زمرهٔ آثار برجستهٔ ادبیا…
