Draft:Mahdi Ganjavi

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Mehdi Ganjavi is an academic. He had his PhD in leadership, higher and adult education from the University of Toronto.His research spans transnational history of education, books, translation and printing in the modern Middle East.[1]

His monograph Education and Cultural Cold War in the Middle East: The Franklin Book Programs in Iran was published by I.B. Tauris in 2023 and was also translated into Persian in the same year (Shirazeh, Tehran).[2]

Ganjavi also has years of experience in editing 17-19th century Persian manuscripts. He has edited the translation of Mohammad Baqer Khorasani from One Thousand and One Nights, which is known as the earliest Persian translation of this canonical text.[3]

Ganjavi has also revived texts from the constitutional era and the founders of the Persian novel. He has edited the novels of Abdul Hossein San'atizadeh Kermani, a pioneering author in Persian science fiction and utopian literature, and the book Sadeq Mamquli by Kazem Mostaan al-Sultan, which is known as the first detective novel in modern Persian literature.[4]

As a poet, Ganjavi has published five poetry collections. The galaxy has no memory of sunset is the fifth collection of Ganjavi's poems. He published Strangers who live in me in Asemana Books, and before that, three collections of poems with the titles Etcetera (Jamedaran, 2010), Words That Fill Up the Etcetera (Arooz Electronic Publishing, 2010), has published Ordinary Emotions (Rozbahani Electronic Publications, 2011).[5][6][7]

  1. ^ "Ganjavi, Mahdi".
  2. ^ "Education and the Cultural Cold War in the Middle East: The Franklin Book Programs in Iran: Mahdi Ganjavi: I.B. Tauris".
  3. ^ "The Henriyah Translation | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations".
  4. ^ "سایت معتبر اخبار فارسی زبانان در کانادا | رسانه خبری هفته".
  5. ^ "کهکشان‌های بی‌خاطره: مجموعه اشعار مهدی گنجوی". 6 April 2024.
  6. ^ "About". mehdiganjavi.com.
  7. ^ "داستانهای ترسناک ایرانی در اینترنت". BBC Persia. 21 June 2014.