Alakbar Aliagha oglu Aliyev, commonly known as Alekper Aliyev or Ali Akbar (; born 28 January 1978), is an Azerbaijani journalist, translator and writer based in

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. Aliyev attended a public school in Baku but after the eighth grade, he continued his secondary education in

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. In 1996, he was admitted to

Marmara University Marmara University (Turkish language, Turkish: ''Marmara Üniversitesi'') is a Public university, public research university in Istanbul, Turkey. The university, named after the Sea of Marmara, was founded as a university in 1982. However, its ...

and graduated with a degree in journalism in 2000. He continued to work in Turkey as the head of the communications department and translator at the Kaknus publishing house. Akbar's works mainly deal with the taboos in Azerbaijani society. He has written four novels to this day and is also the editor-in-chief of the Kultura.az website. In 2009, Alekper Aliyev published a book entitled ''

Artush and Zaur ''Artush and Zaur'' () is a novel by Azerbaijani writer and journalist Ali Akbar (alias of Alakbar Aliyev) published in 2009. It narrates the love story of two fictional men: Artush Saroyan, an Armenian, and Zaur Jalilov, an Azerbaijani. The no ...

'', a homosexual love tale between an

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and an Azerbaijani who felt apart after the

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. The book became highly controversial and was banned in bookstores in both Armenia and Azerbaijan which for the past two decades have been bitter rivals due to the ongoing ethnic conflict over

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and where homosexuality is still highly stigmatised.

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Azerbaijani journalists Azerbaijani translators 1978 births Writers from Baku Living people Marmara University alumni {{Azerbaijan-translator-stub