Draft:Mahdi Ganjavi

Mehdi Ganjavi is an Iranian-Canadian scholar and writer. He received his doctorate in Leadership, Higher and Adult Education from the University of Toronto and is currently teaching at the same university. His research expertise is in the transnational history of education, books, translation and printing in modern Middle East. His monograph "Education and Cultural Cold War in the Middle East: The Franklin Book Programs in Iran" was published by I.B.Tauris in 2023 and was also translated into Persian in the same year (Shirazeh, Tehran). Ganjavi also has years of experience in editing 17-19th century Persian manuscripts. He has edited the translation of Mohammad Baqer Khorasani from One Thousand and One Nights, which is known as the earliest Persian translation of this canonical text. Ganjavi has also revived texts from the constitutional era and the founders of the Persian novel. He has edited the novels of Abdul Hossein San'atizadeh Kermani, a pioneering author in Persian science fiction and utopian literature, and the book 'Sadeq Mamquli' by Kazem Mostaan al-Sultan, which is known as the first detective novel in modern Persian literature. As a poet, Ganjavi has published five poetry collections. "The galaxy has no memory of sunset" is the fifth collection of Ganjavi's poems. He published "Strangers who live in me" in Asemana Books, and before that, three collections of poems with the titles "Etcetera" (Jamedaran, 2010), "Words That Fill Up the Etcetera" (Arooz Electronic Publishing, 2010), has published "Ordinary Emotions" (Rozbahani Electronic Publications, 2011).