Mehdi Akhavan-Sales

Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, who signed himself M. Omid, “the Hope”, was born in Mashhad in February 1928, the son of an apothecary from Yazd. He learned welding at the city's technical school, played the tar in secret from a father hostile to music, and a teacher introduced him to classical prosody. Settled in Tehran in 1947, a schoolteacher near Varamin and an activist in the Tudeh youth, he was imprisoned for nearly a year after the coup of 1953, then sent to teach near Kashan. He later worked at Ebrahim Golestan's studio, in radio and in television, died in Tehran on 25 August 1990 and is buried in Tus.

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