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Speculative Fiction Group
Speculative Fiction Group (Persian: گروه ادبیات گمانه‌زن) formerly known as Fantasy Academy (Persian:آکادمی فانتزی) is a Persian literature group whose main representation media is the website Fantasy Academy (www.fantasy.ir). Speculative Fiction Group (SFG) is composed of a group of writers, researchers, translators and fans of science-fiction, fantasy, horror fiction, and detective literary genres. The group is the governing body of the Persian Speculative Fiction Art and Literature Award, Shegetzar online magazine, Persian Speculative Encyclopedia, and ''Persian SF&F Fanzine''. The group has an English portal for its main site and has established a MediaWiki-based encyclopedia of science fiction and fantasy. History SFG started as a fanzine club named Zirabious in early 2004, and in 2005, after renaming itself to Fantasy Academy, changed its approach to a more academic path and became the sole reference for Persian speculative fiction, speci ...
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Persian Fantasy Academy
Persian Speculative Art and Literature Award is an annual literary award for Persian media in the field of speculative fiction printed in Persian language. This award is governed by a board of trustees and considered a branch of SFG (Speculative Fiction Group, Speculative Fiction Group, formerly Persian Fantasy Academy). Award categories *Best Sf&f short story selected by jury of Persian Speculative Fiction Short Story Contest. *Best Sf&f translator of the year. *Best Sf&f publisher of the year. *The most active person in Sf&f literature in the year. History Established at 2004, based on Persian Speculative Fiction Short Story Contest and developed to become the only non-governmental literary award in Iran which is continued to 5 terms in 6 years. Persian Speculative Short Story Contest This award is given to the best short story of the year in the field of science fiction, horror fiction or fantasy genre. The winner is selected among all participants of the yearly contest. The co ...
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Wonderland
Wonderland may refer to: Places Municipalities * Wonderland, California, a ghost town in Plumas County * Wonderland, Ohio, a ghost town in Columbus, Ohio, U.S. Roads, streets, and trails * Wonderland Avenue, a roadway in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles and the site of the 1981 Wonderland Murders (at 8763 Wonderland Avenue) * Wonderland Trail, a hiking trail that circumnavigates Mount Rainier in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, U.S. * Wonderland Road, a major north–south roadway in the city of London, Ontario, Canada Other uses * Wonderland (MBTA station), a rapid transit station on the Blue Line in Revere, Massachusetts, U.S. * Wonderland Greyhound Park, a former greyhound racing track in Revere, Massachusetts * Wonderland Village, a shopping center in Livonia, Michigan, U.S.; formerly known as Wonderland Mall and Wonderland Center * Wonder-land, or Wonderland, sometimes used to refer to Yellowstone National Park Amusement parks * Canada's Wonderland, in Vaughan, Ontar ...
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Sf&f
Speculative fiction is a term that has been used with a variety of (sometimes contradictory) meanings. The broadest interpretation is as a category of fiction encompassing genres with elements that do not exist in reality, recorded history, nature, or the present universe. Such fiction covers various themes in the context of supernatural, futuristic, and other imaginative realms. The genres under this umbrella category include, but are not limited to, science fiction, fantasy, horror, superhero fiction, alternate history, utopian and dystopian fiction, and supernatural fiction, as well as combinations thereof (for example, science fantasy). History Speculative fiction as a category ranges from ancient works to paradigm-changing and neotraditional works of the 21st century. Characteristics of speculative fiction have been recognized in older works whose authors' intentions, or in the social contexts of the stories they portray, are now known. For example, the ancient Greek dr ...
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Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmenistan to the north, by Afghanistan and Pakistan to the east, and by the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south. It covers an area of , making it the 17th-largest country. Iran has a population of 86 million, making it the 17th-most populous country in the world, and the second-largest in the Middle East. Its largest cities, in descending order, are the capital Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan, Karaj, Shiraz, and Tabriz. The country is home to one of the world's oldest civilizations, beginning with the formation of the Elamite kingdoms in the fourth millennium BC. It was first unified by the Medes, an ancient Iranian people, in the seventh century BC, and reached its territorial height in the sixth century BC, when Cyrus the Great fo ...
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Mehdi Yazdani Khoram
Mehdi () is a common Arabic masculine given name, meaning "rightly guided". People having the name Mehdi are in general originating from Iran mostly and sometimes India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Azerbaijan, France, Morocco, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, United States of America. This name is a variation of the name Mahdi which has an Arabic origin. Other, less common, variations are Medi, Mehti, Meyti. People with the given name Arts and entertainment * DJ Mehdi (1977–2011), French hip hop and house producer * Mehdi Bagheri (born 1980), Iranian kamancheh player and composer * Mehdi Bahmad, Moroccan-born Canadian singer, songwriter, producer, director, and visual artist * Mehdi Bajestani (born 1974), Iranian actor * Mehdi Bozorgmehr, Iranian musician and composer * Mehdi Charef, French-Algerian film director and screenwriter * Mehdi Dehbi (born 1985), Belgian actor and theatre director * Mehdi Favéris-Essadi, French-Tunisian hip hop and electro producer, better k ...
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Vida Eslamie
Vida means “life” in Spanish and Portuguese. It may refer to: Geography * Vida (Gradačac), village in Bosnia and Herzegovina * Lake Vida, Victoria Valley, Antarctica * U.S. settled places: ** Vida, Montana ** Vida, Oregon ** Vida, Missouri Film and TV * Vida TV, a television channel in Venezuela * ''Vida'' (TV series), a 2018 American television series Literature * Vida (Occitan literary form), a medieval literary genre * ''Vida'' (novel), a 1980 novel by Marge Piercy * Vida: Women in Literary Arts, a non-profit feminist organization Music Albums * ''Vida'' (Sui Generis album), 1972 * ''Vida'', a 1980 album by Chico Buarque * ''Vida'', a 1988 album by Paloma San Basilio * ''Vida'', a 1989 album by DC3 * ''Vida'', a 1990 album by Emmanuel * '' Vida!...'', a 1993 album by Kon Kan * ''Vida'' (La Mafia album), 1994 * ''Vida'', a 1996 album by Marcos Llunas * ''Vida'', a 2002 album by Del Castillo * ''Vida'', a 2002 album by Santiago Feliú * ''Vida'', a 2003 album b ...
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Shahram Eghbal Zadeh
Shahram ( persian, شهرام) is a masculine Persian given name. The name is made of two parts, 'shah' meaning king and 'ram' meaning doe (female deer). The meaning behind a "king of female deer" implies a benevolent ruler who cares for their subjects. List of people with the given name Shahram * Shahram Amiri (1978–2016), Iranian nuclear scientist * Shahrum Kashani, Iranian singer * Shahram Mahmoudi (born 1988), Iranian volleyball player * Shahram Nazeri, Iranian singer * Shahram Shabpareh, Iranian singer * Shahram Taghavi Shahram Taghavi is a barrister practising in the United Kingdom. He is a specialist in Judicial Review, Human Rights, Immigration and EU law. He was called to the England & Wales bar in 1994. He is a partner at Article 1, a law firm specialising ..., barrister {{given name Persian masculine given names ...
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Peyman Ghasemkhani
Peyman Qasemkhani ( fa, پیمان قاسم‌خانی, born 20 January 1967) is an Iranian film screenwriter, director and actor. Early life He was born on 20 January 1967. He graduated from Ahvaz University in 1985. Personal life He was married to Bahareh Rahnama in 1992 and divorced in 2016. Rahnama is an Iranian actress who has been active in Iranian cinema since 1993. They have a daughter, Paria, who was born in 1997. She appeared with her mother in two films, including ''Bano'' and '' Mard-e Hezar-Chehreh''. Qasemkhani married Mitra Ebrahimi in 2021. Qasemkhani's brother, Mehrab Qasemkhani is also a writer and his former spouse, Shaghayegh Dehghan is an actress. Selected filmography Film ;as a writer ;as a director ;as an actor Television ;as a writer ;as a director Home network ;as a writer ;as a director References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:QasemKhani, Peyman 1966 births Living people Iranian satirists Iranian screenwriters Male acto ...
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Arash Hejazi
Arash Hejazi ( fa, آرش حجازی), born 1971 in Tehran, Iran, is an Iranian physician, novelist, fiction writer and translator of literary works from English and Portuguese into Persian. He is also an editor in Caravan Books Publishing House (Iran), and ''Book Fiesta'' Literary Magazine. He is a member of the Tehran Union of Publishers and Booksellers (TUPB) and was the managing editor of its journal, Sanat-e-Nashr (Publishing Industry), from 2006 to 2007. He was one of the nominees to receive the Freedom to Publish Prize held by International Publishers’ Association (IPA) in 2006. He is also a novel writer, whose best known novel ''The Princess of the Land of Eternity'' was shortlisted for two major Iranian literary prizes and has sold more than 20,000 copies in Iran since its first publication in 2003. He in 2009 he received his MA in Publishing from Oxford Brookes University. His dissertation on censorship in Iran was published in the publishing journal ''Logos'' in 2011, a ...
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Mitra Eliati
''Mitra'' ( Proto-Indo-Iranian: ''*mitrás'') is the name of an Indo-Iranian divinity from which the names and some characteristics of Rigvedic Mitrá and Avestan Mithra derive. The names (and occasionally also some characteristics) of these two older figures were subsequently also adopted for other figures: * A vrddhi-derived form of Sanskrit ''mitra'' gives Maitreya, the name of a bodhisattva in Buddhist tradition. * In Hellenistic-era Asia Minor, Avestan Mithra was conflated with various local and Greek figures leading to several different variants of Apollo- Helios-Mithras-Hermes- Stilbon. * Via Greek and some Anatolian intermediate, the Avestan theonym also gave rise to Latin ''Mithras'', the principal figure of the first century Roman Mysteries of Mithras (also known as 'Mithraism'). * In Middle Iranian, the Avestan theonym evolved (among other Middle Iranian forms) into Sogdian ''Miši'', Middle Persian and Parthian ''Mihr'', and Bactrian Miuro (/mihru/). Aside fr ...
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Reza Alizade
Reza is a Persian name, originating from the Arabic word , ''Riḍā'', which literally means "the fact of being pleased or contented; contentment, approval". In religious context, this name is interpreted as ''satisfaction'' or "''perfect contentment'' with God's will or decree". The name is neutral and not one used only by a particular sect, and is used widely by Iranians, Arab Christians and Arab Druze. According to Annemarie Schimmel, "riḍā is closely related to shukr"; "shukr" is an Arabic term denoting thankfulness and gratitude. Given name Religion * Ali al-Ridha, Eighth Shia Ithna Ashari Imam. * Ala Hazrat Imam Ahmed Raza Khan Academics * Reza Afshari, Iranian historian * Reza Davari Ardakani, Iranian philosopher * Reza Ghadiri, Iranian-American chemist * Reza Iravani, Iranian academic * Rida Khawaldeh, Jordanian academic * Reza Malekzadeh, Iranian physician * Reza Mansouri, Iranian physicist * Reza Olfati-Saber, Iranian roboticist * Rida Said, Syrian physician * Rı ...
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