Ismail Salami

Ismail Salami, also known as Ali Salami and Simon Lee (born 17 January 1968), is an Iranian writer, lexicographer, Iranologist and Middle East expert.

Salami's political career began in 2004 when he started working at the International Daily Tehran Times first as a language editor and later as an editor-in-chief. In 2007, he joined the international English-language Press TV channel where he was assigned as the managing editor of the website.

Salami writes extensively on the US and Middle East issues. His articles have appeared in different international journals and some of them have been translated into a number of languages.

As a lexicographer, Salami has so far compiled three volumes of dictionaries (English-Persian) on political terms and those related to intelligence and security.

He is a frequent contributor to the Canadian Centre for Research on Globalization and Veterans Today Journal.

Books

• A Study of Thirty Great Plays (Mehrandish Books, Tehran 2008)
• A Dictionary of Intelligence and Security (Zabankadeh, Tehran 2007)
• Maybe 'tis the Messiah (Selected Poems of Simin Behbahani, Zabankadeh, Tehran 2006)
• A Dictionary of Journalism (Zabankadeh, Tehran 2005)
• The Divan of Hafiz, (Guya, Tehran 2004)
• Maybe It's the Messiah (Selected Poems of Simin Behbahani, Zabankadeh, Tehran 2004)
• Persia, Cradle of Civilization (Guya, Tehran 2004).
• The Water's Footfall (Selected Poems of Sohrab Sepehri, Zabankadeh, Tehran 2004)
• An Encyclopedia of Persian Literature (Alhoda, Tehran 2004)
• Political System in Iran (Alhoda, Tehran 2004)
• Another Birth (Selected Poems of Forough Farrokhzad, Zabankadeh, Tehran 2003)
• Islamic Views on Human Rights (London 2001; New Delhi 2003)
• A History of Persian Literature, (Alhoda, Tehran 2002)
• With All My Tears (Selected Poems of Fereydoon Moshiri, Zabankadeh, Tehran 2002)
• Madmen of History (Juya, Tehran 1999)
• Persian Fairy Tales (Mehrandish, Tehran 1999)
• A Study of Thirty Great Novels (Mehrandish, Tehran 1999)

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