The Sadeq Hedayat’s Centenary Conference was held at St Antony’s College, Oxford, in March 2003. The conferfence was organized by the Iran Heritage Foundation and by the Oriental Institute and St Antony’s College. Many of his works were banned by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s regime. In 2008, Iran Open Publishing Group began to publish Hedayat’s Complete Works in Farsi language.