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Avroman Became A UNESCO World Heritage Site

Avroman or Hawraman, is a mountainous region located within the provinces of Kurdistan and Kermanshah in western Iran and in north-eastern Kurdistan Region in Iraq. The main part of the Hawraman region is located in Iran and encompasses two components of the Central-Eastern Valley (Zhawaro and Takht, in Kurdistan Province); and the Western Valley (Lahon, in Kermanshah Province). The mode ...

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Morvary Qajar Military Cannon

Pearl Ball is a novel written by Sadegh Hedayat. This book was written in 1326, but was not allowed to be published during the author’s lifetime. The first edition of the book dates back to 1979, when it was published underground. The book was originally published under the pseudonym Hadi Sedaghat.

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9 Famous Author Suicides in Literary History

On 9 April 1951, Sadegh Hedayat committed suicide by gassing himself in a small rented apartment in Paris. Sadegh (also spelled as Sadeq) Hedayat; February 17, 1903 in Tehran – April 9, 1951 in Paris) was an Iranian writer, translator and intellectual. Best known for his novel The Blind Owl, he was one of the earliest Iranian writers to adopt ...

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