[custom_adv] Farhad Mehrad He (1944 - 2002), widely known in homeland as Farhad, was an Iranian pop, rock and folk singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist.He rose to prominence among persian rock folk and pop musicians before the persian Revolution, but after the revolution, he was banned from singing for several years. [custom_adv] Sadegh Hedayat He (1903 – 1951) was an writer, translator and intellectual. Best known for his novel The Blind Owl, he was one of the earliest persian writers to adopt literary modernism in their career. [custom_adv] Homayoun Khorram He (1930 – 2013) was an musician, composer, violinist, and a member of the high council of homeland's house of music.Khorram began his music career as a violinist at the age of 10 by participating in master Abolhassan Saba violin and Radif classes. [custom_adv] Rūhollāh Khāleqi He (1906 – 1965) was a prominent musician, composer, conductor and author.He first became acquainted with the tar, but later started to learn to play the violin. As soon as Ali-Naqi Vaziri established his School of Music, Khāleghi left school and joined Vaziri's school, where he studied for eight years. [custom_adv] Abbas Kiarostami He (1940 – 2016) was an film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer and film producer.An active film-maker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the Koker trilogy (1987–94), Close-Up (1990), Taste of Cherry (1997) – which was awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year – and The Wind Will Carry Us (1999). [custom_adv] Hossein Behzad He (1894 – 1968) was a prominent painter. His early work was in the styles of the old masters of Persian painting of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, hoping to save Persian miniature painting from oblivion. [custom_adv] Gholām-Hossein Sā'edi He (1936 – 1985) was a prolific writer. He has published over forty books, representing his talents in the fiction genres of drama , the novel, the screenplay, and the short story in addition to the non-fiction genres of cultural criticism, travel literature and ethnogr aphy. [custom_adv] Sohrab Sepehri He (1928 – 1980) was a notable Iranian poet and a painter.He is considered to be one of the five most famous poets who have practiced modern poetry. [custom_adv] Mohammad Ali Fardin He (1931 – 2000) was an freestyle wrestler and actor.Fardin was a popular lead actor in cinema, and was known by the title, King of Hearts, after his lead role in an persian film of the same title (Soltane Ghalbha). In his twenties he was a freestyle wrestler, who won a silver medal at the 1954 world wrestling championships and placed fourth in 1957. [custom_adv] Khosrow Shakibaei He (1944 – 2008) was an stage and cinema actor. He ranks amongst the most accomplished actors of his generation. Khosrow Shakibai was born to Colonel Ahmad Shakibāi and Ms Farideh Khātami. [custom_adv] Fereydoun Farrokhzad He (1938 – 1992) was an singer, actor, poet, TV and radio host, writer, and iconic opposition political figure. He is best known for his successful variety TV show "Mikhak-e Noghrei" (The Silver Carnation). He was the brother of the acclaimed Persian poets Forough Farrokhzad and Pooran Farrokhzad. [custom_adv] Fereydoon Moshiri He (1926 – 2000) was one of the prominent contemporary Persian poets who versified in both modern and classic styles of the Persian poem.A selection of his poems has been translated into English entitled With All my Tears by Ali Salami. [custom_adv] Forugh Farrokhzad She (1934 – 1967) was an influential poet and film director. She was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclast,writing from a female point of view. [custom_adv] Hossein Panahi Dezhkooh He (1956 - 2004) was an actor and poet. After graduating from high school, due to his father's recommendation, he found his way to "Ayatollah Golpaygaani"'s religious class. He then returned to his hometown as a religious figure, but this lasted only for a few months. [custom_adv] Bijan Taraghi He (1930 - 2009) was an poet and songwriter.
