Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh

Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh was born in Isfahan in 1892, the son of the constitutionalist preacher Sayyed Jamal ad-Din, whom the supporters of autocracy had put to death in prison in 1908. A pupil of the Catholic school of Antoura, he studied law in Lausanne and then in Dijon. A member of the committee of Iranian nationalists in Berlin, he set out to raise Kurdish and Lur militias against the British and the Russians, and represented the nationalists at the socialist congress in Stockholm in 1917. Settled in Geneva in 1931, he worked at the International Labour Office until his retirement and died in that city in 1997.

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• Short storiesOnce Upon a Timeیکی بود یکی نبودMohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh · 1921Literature