Expectations of a dream

<p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(10 16 26 1)>A Collection of Minimalist Experimental Stories by Mahdi Ganjavi.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(247 190 38 1); color: rgba(0 0 10 1)>Mahdi Ganjavi is a writer editor and distinguished historian specializing in education literature print and translation within the Middle East. He has written the entry on Bijan Elahi Persian modernist poet for the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(247 190 38 1); color: rgba(0 0 10 1)>Encyclopaedia Iranica</em><span style=background-color: rgba(247 190 38 1); color: rgba(0 0 10 1)> and his articles have been published in journals such as </span><em style=background-color: rgba(247 190 38 1); color: rgba(0 0 10 1)>Iranian Studies</em><span style=background-color: rgba(247 190 38 1); color: rgba(0 0 10 1)> and the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(247 190 38 1); color: rgba(0 0 10 1)>Review of Middle East Studies</em><span style=background-color: rgba(247 190 38 1); color: rgba(0 0 10 1)>. Over the last decade he has undertaken the editing and publication of seven lesser-known Persian novels dating from the 1920s to the 1940s. These novels provide valuable insights into the origins of historical and utopian fiction science fiction and detective fiction within the Persian literary tradition. Recently Ganjavi has successfully completed the first critical edition of Henriyah Translation (tarjumah hinrīyah) which represents the earliest Persian translation of One Thousand and One Nights (Maniahonar 2022).</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(247 190 38 1); color: rgba(0 0 10 1)>Ganjavi's first short story collection </span><em style=background-color: rgba(247 190 38 1); color: rgba(0 0 10 1)>The Pedagogy of Paranoia</em><span style=background-color: rgba(247 190 38 1); color: rgba(0 0 10 1)> was published in 2012 by Roozbahani Press. His second work of fiction </span><em style=background-color: rgba(247 190 38 1); color: rgba(0 0 10 1)>Expectations of A Dream</em><span style=background-color: rgba(247 190 38 1); color: rgba(0 0 10 1)> a collection of 79 flash fiction stories was published in 2021 by Asemana Books (Toronto). </span></p><p></p>