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By Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda,Janet Afary,John R. Perry

A vintage of contemporary Persian literature, Charand-o Parand (Stuff and Nonsense) is a piece universal to each literate Iranian. initially a sequence of newspaper columns written by means of student and satirist Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, the items poke enjoyable at mullahs, the shah, and the previous spiritual and political order through the Constitutional Revolution in Iran (1906–11). The essays have been the Daily Show in their period. The columns have been heatedly debated within the Iranian parliament, and the newspaper was once close down on numerous events for its feedback of the spiritual institution. Translated by way of exceptional students of Persian language and historical past, this quantity makes Dehkhoda’s wonderful political observations to be had to English readers for the 1st time.

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