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My first name is Omran. Salahi
is my second name. My first name is chosen by my uncle, Morad. It is
taken from "Al Omran" verse of Quran. Turk call me "Imran",
but Fars people pronounce the first word of my name both with
"O" and "E". Publishers and translators wonder
how to write it. It doesn't matter. Everyone can write and read it
as he/she likes.
Ahmad Shamlou said, "His name is Omran (it means
"flourishing and construction"), but he caused destruction
from the beginning".
I was born on February 28 in Tehran, on the intersection of Amirieh
St. and Gomrok St., but not just in the middle of the intersection!
Though, people say, "the best of the things, is in the middle
of them" (an expression in Persian).
My mother was born in Baku. She was called "rosa", when
she lived in Baku; they changed her name to "Firouzeh",
after coming to Iran. Her second name was "Qanbar-zadeh",
but they also changed it to "Panahandeh" (It means
"Refugee".). Her ID Card was issued in Semnan.
My father, Moheb-ollah, the son of "Qahraman", was born in
"Sham-Asbi", a village in Ardebil province, but this
village is joined to Ardebil city, now, or maybe, Ardebil has come
and joined to it! My father worked in Railway Organization. In 1960,
when we lived in Tabriz, and at a cold winter night, he died without
awaring us! "The man would stay as the train left; the train
stayed and the man left, this time."
I have a brother, called "Parviz", and my three sisters
are "Tahereh", "Nahid", and "Maliheh".
My wife is "Hayedeh", and my children are "Yashar"
and "Bahareh" and a plenty of poems and other writings.
I studied at different schools and I lived in different cities, such
as Qom, Tehran and Tabriz. Because of a great talent, I failed for
three years, during my education at high school!
I am graduated with an associated of arts degree in English
translating from Tehran University. I can speak English, as well as
an English, who speaks Persian.
I did my military service in Tehran, Tabriz, Kermanshah and most of
it in Maraqeh, as a sergeant. Those who had diploma, became
sergeants and those with BA degree became officers in the army. They
didn't know, what to do with me. I had neither a diploma, nor a BA
degree!
I could only find a job in Radio & TV Organization, by my
incomplete degree. Then, I became an editor. I got my glorious
retirement in 1991, while I was running Soroush Library, and as it
is too hard to run the wheel of the life by the glory of the
retirement, I have to work somewhere else.
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Riding
my gaze
I flew out the window
to a hill with snow on the slopes
and much to speak
It was cold-
I lit a small fire
saw you there in the shades
the world suspended within a drop
Riding my gaze
I came back |
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