1. Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh Esfahani was one of the most prominent writers of Iran in the 20th century, best known for his unique style of humour.
14 Facts About Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh
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Sayyed Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh was born in Esfahan into a middle-class family.
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The young Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh lived in Iran only until he was twelve or thirteen.
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Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh wrote of his experiences and eyewitness accounts decades later in two books entitled "Qatl-e Amm-e Armanian" and "Qatl o garat-e Aramaneh dar Torkiye".
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Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh quickly realizes that the stories in the diary are written by an uneducated man, who views Iran with the prejudice that the whole world should be like Europe.
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Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh writes that the men in Iran are distinguished by the color of their hats and that there are three groups: The Yellow Hats, the White Hats, and the Black Hats.
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The European masseur's observations come off as naive and limited due to his ignorance, but they serve as a social satire that Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh uses as a literary strategy to exemplify a humorous but eye-opening perspective on Iranian society.
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Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh realizes that the European masseur's understanding is limited and partly wrong.
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Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh began writing again in the 1940s, but by that time he had lost the dexterity that imparted conciseness, novelty of form, originality of ideas, a biting sense of humor, and a tight structure to his earlier stories.
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Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh translated many books from the latter languages into Persian.
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Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh died at the age of 105, in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh's tomb is located in the "Petit-Saconnex" cemetery.
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In 1914 Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh married his first wife, Josephine, a Swiss woman and a fellow student in Dijon.
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In 1931 and during his residence in Geneva, Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh married his second wife, the German Margaret Eggert.