Mahdī Akhavān S̲ālis̲

"Mahdī Akhavān S̲ālis̲ (1928–1990), pen name M. Omid, was born in Mashhad, Iran, and was a major pioneer of free verse Persian poetic style. As an intellectual during the 1953 CIA coup and the 1979 Iranian Revolution, he came into conflict with government censors. In his work Ākhar-i Shāhnāmah (The End of the Shahnameh), S̲ālis̲ examines contemporary socio-political problems in Iran in the context of Iran’s own ancient legends channeled through the poet Ferdowsi. Similarly in his work Az īn Avistā (From This Avesta), his criticism is voiced through the Avesta, the ancient Zoroastrian scriptures."

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