Mohammad Ali Aloumi, Iranian researcher and Shahnameh scholar, passed away
Mohammad Ali Aloumi, an Iranian writer, researcher, Shahnameh scholar, and satirist, passed away at the age of 63
According to Iranian news agencies, he died on Sunday, May 6th, due to illness in his hometown of Bam
Mr. Aloumi was a graduate in political science from the University of Tehran and began his journalism career in the 1980s at Ettela’at newspaper. In the 1990s, he also entered the field of fictional literature and folk culture
Among his famous novels are ‘The Lament of the Magi’, ‘Azarestan’, ‘The Darkness’, ‘The Sorrowful Wanderer’, ‘Paribad’, ‘Strange Tales of Ordinary People’, ‘A Thousand and One Nights Again’, ‘The Little House’, and ‘The Gift of the Hero’