Moayed-ol Mamalek Fekri Ershad
Moayed-ol Mamalek Fekri Ershad (Persian: مؤیدالممالک فکری ارشاد, 1869-1916) was an Iranian journalist and playwright. He was born in Tehran and studied in Dar ul-Funun. In the time of constitutional movement in Iran he was a supporter of this movement and when the Persian Constitutional Revolution happened, he was 37. In this time he was the editor of Sobhe Sadegh, a political and revolutionary newspaper. He was arrested in 1908 after the coup d'état of Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar. He was also a playwright and wrote several plays in which he criticized politicians of his time.[1]
Some of his plays[]
- Old Statesmen, New Statesmen
- The Story of a Journalist
- Love in the Old Age
References[]
- ^ Khalaj, Mansoor. (1992). Iranian Playwrights. Tehran: Akhtaran. ISBN 964-7514-13-1. pp.49-54
Categories:
- Iranian dramatists and playwrights