Older people in Shiraz still remember Siroos Ghahremani: a weird mixture of traditional “Ma’rekehgir”, Anthony Quin’s character in Fellini’s La Strada, with a touch of Hollywood and Italian ‘historic’ movies of the 1950s. In the early 1960s he established himself as the only star of his popular one-man show. He also made a small private “zoo” in Shiraz to make some money on the side by showing off his skinny malnourished animals caught in small cages.
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Summery in English: The post is about an Iranian student of Physics in Princeton in the 1930s named Mahmoud Hessaby. After graduation from Princeton Mahmood Hessaby went back to Iran and assisted the new pro-Western Iranian government to establish a “School of Sciences” in the brand-new “University of Tehran”. Years later in the 1990s, his son Iraj Hessaby claims that his father was a friend of Albert Einstein, Niles Bohr, Schrodinger, and Dirac; and makes up stories about the incredible adventures of his father in Princeton university. Within a two-year period the book is published thirty times. The post is a commentary on one of the stories from that book. It also brings up the question why such a ridiculous book became so popular in Iran.
This piece is only in Persian. To read it in Persian click here.
Summery in English: The post is about an Iranian student of Physics in Princeton in the 1930s named Mahmoud Hessaby. After graduation from Princeton Mahmood Hessaby went back to Iran and assisted the new pro-Western Iranian government to establish a “School of Sciences” in the brand-new “University of Tehran”. Years later in the 1990s, his son Iraj Hessaby claims that his father was a friend of Albert Einstein, Niles Bohr, Schrodinger, and Dirac; and makes up stories about the incredible adventures of his father in Princeton university. Within a two-year period the book is published thirty times. The post is a commentary on one of the stories from that book. It also brings up the question why such a ridiculous book became so popular in Iran.
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Towfigh was the most important satyrical weekly in the period between the 1953 coop deta and the 1978 revolution. It created a style of satirical writing which is still dominant among the satirical publications in Iran. The issue here is the Twofiq yearbook from 1970 (1349 Solar Hijri).
