Ismail Salami

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Ismail Salami
Occupation	Writer, critic, journalist, translator.

Ismail Salami or Ali Salami (born Tehran, 17 January, 1968) is an Iranian writer, journalist, critic, encyclopedist, lexicographer, translator and university instructor.

In 1996, he embarked on a translation of modern Persian poetry series into English. His primary concern was to introduce modern Persian literature to English-speaking readers.

Four collections of modern poetry are the fruits of his endeavors; With All My Tears by Fereydun Moshiri, Another Birth by Forough Farrokhzad, The Water’s Footfall by Sohrab Sepehri and Maybe It’s the Messiah by Simin Behbahani.

He made an exhaustive study of European novels and published the results of his study in a book entitled ‘A Study of Thirty Great Novels’. He served as the editor-in-chief of the international Tehran Times daily for a year. He also served as the website manager of Press TV English-language news channel from 2007 to 2008. As an expert on Iranian studies, he has written more than ten books.

Salami has so far authored and translated dozens of works ranging from literature to philosophy. He is credited to be the first one who supervised and compiled A Companion to Persian Literature. Many of his articles have been translated into foreign languages including Italian, Turkish, Chinese, Spanish, German and Greek. He has been working on the largest English-Persian dictionary for ten years.

An English-Persian Shakespeare Glossary is his new book which will be published soon.

He has taught English literature at Azad University, Alzahra University and Teachers’ Training College.

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A Moonlit Night (Islamabad, Pakistan, 1992)
Madmen of History, (Tehran 1999)
Persian Fairy Tales (Tehran 1999)
A Study of Thirty Great Novels (Tehran 1999)
Islamic Views on Human Rights (London 2001; New Delhi 2003)
The Divan of Hafiz, (Tehran 2004)
A History of Persian Literature, (Tehran 2002)
An Encyclopedia of Persian Literature (Tehran 2004)
With All My Tears (Selected Poems of Fereydoon Moshiri, Tehran 2002)
Another Birth (Selected Poems of Forough Farrokhzad, Tehran 2003)
The Water's Footfall (Selected Poems of Sohrab Sepehri, Tehran 2004)
Maybe, It's the Messiah (Selected Poems of Simin Behbahani, Tehran 2004)
Political System in Iran (Tehran 2004)
Iran, Cradle of Civilization (Tehran 2004).

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