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 Renowned painter, illustrator and sculptor Morteza Zahedi was born in 1978 in Rasht, Iran. Zahedi graduated in painting in 1995 and ever since then has held […]

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Ebtehaj, Houshang (Rasht, 25 Feb. 1928-.), alias H Ebtehaj, Houshang (Rasht, 25 Feb. 1928-.), alias H. E. Sayeh. Modernist poet and famous ghazal-writer of contemporary Iran, songwriter and musician, andscholar in the field of critical studies of Hafez.

He was born to a distinguished and well-known family. His father, Mirza Aqa Khan, the son of Ebtehaj al-Mulk, was originally from Garakan, Tafresh, and his mother, Fatima Rifa’at, the daughter of Rifa’at al-Mamalik, was of Shirazi and Isfahani descent. He completed his elementary and secondary education up to the fourth year of high school at the Ansari, Qaani, Luqman and Shahpour schools of Rasht, and spent his fifth year of high school at Tamadon High School in Tehran. 1939 marks the first sparks of his poetic talent and passion for music. 1946 to 1951 laid the foundations for his acquaintances, friendships and communication with the traditional and modern poets of his day, along with renowned music maestros, including Mehdi Hamidi Shirazi, Nima Youshij, Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, Fereydoun Tavallalli, Forough Farrokhzad, Nader Naderpour, Fereydoun Moshiri, Sohrab Sepehri, Mehdi Akhavan Sales, Abolhasan Saba, and Ahmadi Ebadi. In 1954, he was employed by the Tehran State Construction and Cement Company, and also began working with the thriving press of the time, including publications such as Sokhan, Kavian, Sadaf, Maslahat, and Payam Novin. He married Alma Mikial in 1958. In 1965 he travelled to Yerevan, Moscow, Leningrad, Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, and Kiev. In 1969, he worked with Nader Naderpour, Galoust Khanents, and R. Ben to translate the poetry of the Armenian poet Tumanyan. Ebtehaj was appointed manager of the Iranian Music Department at the National Radio of Iran in 1972. The traditional music programmes “Fresh Flowers” and “Selection of the Week” are testament to his diligent work on Iran’s national radio. He travelled to Almaty, Kazakhstan in 1973 in order to attend the Conference of Asian, African and Latin American Writers; in the same year, accompanied by Gholam-Ali Ra’di Azarakhshi and Sadeq Chubak, he attended the Asian, African and Latin American Poetry Congress in Iran...

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