SHAHRIYAR’S POETRY NIGHT WAS HELD IN ARMENIA
Iran Book News Agency
Feb 16 2015
Publish Date : Monday 16 February 2015 – 18:54
IBNA- The literature meeting ‘Shahriyar’s poetry night’ was held
at Iran’s Cultural Center in Armenia attended by a group of poets,
literary figures, professors, scholars and students of Persian language
and literature to review the literature of the Islamic Revolution.
According to IBNA correspondent, quoting from the office of the
Public Relations and Islamic Communications that the ceremony aimed
to introducing the literature of the Islamic Revolution and the works
of Shahriyar in particular to the guests by showing a film of him
reciting a poem in the presence of the Supreme Leader. Majid Meshki,
the Iranian Cultural Attache, delivered a speech on comparing the
history of Persian poetry and literature at Pahlavi era with that
of the Islamic Revolution and pointed to the changes in Shahriyar’s
poems before and after the Islamic Revolution.
Iran’s Cultural Attache in Armenia stated in his speech that most
poets and literary figures as well as thinkers were either in jail
or exiled in Pahlavi era due to Reza Shah’s dictatorship, and this
happened at the time when many great poets of the country like Farrokhi
Yazdi and Mirzadeh Eshqi lost their lives to the regime.