Faraj Sarkouhi

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Faraj Sarkohi (Persian: فرج سرکوهی‎, born 3 November 1947, in Shiraz) is an Iranian literary critic and journalist. He was cofounder and editor in chief of the Iranian magazine Adineh. Life Early life, education and prison Faraj Sarkohi went to school in Shiraz. He studied Persian literature and social science at the University of Tabriz, participating in the group around Samad Behrangi. He published Adineh, a student magazine. He embarked in different activities against the Shah and wrote a number of dissident articles, which resulted in a three-month prison sentence in 1966 and another one-year sentence in 1967, followed by a final 15-year prison sentence in 1971. He was amnestied in 1978 just before the Iranian Revolution, along with many other political prisoners. After the Revolution During the following time of relative political freedom, he went on to publish articles for the magazines Tehran Mossavar and Iran. When the Islamic regime started to suppress all dissident political forces and publications, Sarkohi was forced into retirement from public life. Adineh He founded Adineh in 1985, together with Massoud Behnoud, Sirus Alinejad, Golamhossein Zakeri and served as editor in chief from 1988 to 1996. Adineh became known as the most important, independent magazine for art, politics and culture in the 1980s and 90’s in Iran. In addition to being Adineh’s editor in chief, he published many reviews and essays and interviewed some important figures of Iranian life, like

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