Tehran-based 7-Eghlim Art and Culture Institute is inviting prominent writers to a series of discourse sessions to create the grounds for those new in the field of writing to learn from their valuable experience. The institute has announced on its website (7eghlimehonar.com) the program for the first 12 sessions to be held at the premises of the institute. As per the schedule, the 12 sessions are planned for Wednesdays, first of which will be held on April 25 and will be hosted by writer Mohsen Faraji while fiction writer Mohammd Mohammd-Ali will attend as a guest. Mohammad-Ali, 70, is a graduate of political science from Tehran University. Upon graduation he has written regularly for the mass media. He has also been the editor of several Iranian literary magazines such as Donyay-e Sokhan, Adineh, Karnameh and the quarterly Borj. He has so far published five short story collections and nine novels, including ‘Adam and Eve’, ‘Five Years Before 1985’ ‘Naked in the Wind’, ‘Retirement and Other Stories’, ‘The Concealed Image’, and ‘Alas for the Opposite’. The latter, a short story collection based on the life of the working class, was published in Turkey, translated by Hashem Khosroshahi, upon recommendation by Turkish Nobel prizewinner Orhan Pamuk. Reza Jolaei, Hossein Sanapour, Nahid Tabatabaei and Mahmoud Hosseini-Rad are among the guest authors who will attend the meetings. The venue is located at No. 569, after Malek Street on Shariati Avenue. The event is open to the public.
