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Payman Jahanbinii | Camel Jockey Go Home
Camel Jockey Go Home
Second Edition, January 2010
www.cameljockeygohome.com
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PaymanJahanbin
Recently banned in andfrom Iran for his latest play,
All Wounded
, Payman Jahanbinis a prolific, published andcelebrated writer-poet in hisnative Persian. As the Author’sfirst major work penneddirectly in English, CamelJockey Go Home reveals a new,refreshingly readable writingstyle. Jahanbin’s maturity as a practitioner of the classic, lyrical Persianstyle of story telling comes through from the first sentence.From clowning in Amsterdam, Paris and London to translatingMormon scripture in Utah, overnight, the Author is conscriptedto teach hundreds of newly arrived, rich, Iranian kids at the localpublic high school just as the 1979 Iranian Revolution begins tounfold. Payman tells his story as if watching a play co-starring schooladministrators and featuring his students, refugees from all over theworld, as he teaches them to become their own storytellers.About the AuthorWhile still in high school in Iran, Payman Jahanbin publishedseveral books of short stories, which preceded more plays, poems andshort stories. In college, Mr. Jahanbin published a magazine called
From Poetry to Plays.
As a freelance journalist, he has published over300 articles in The Kayhan of London, The Ettela’at, Peygam-e Emruz,Ferdowsi of Iran, and the Salt Lake Tribune. Jahanbin has a degreefrom Pahlavi University in Shiraz, Iran. He received his teachingcertificate and theatre degree from Westminster College and a Mastersof Arts and Humanity, Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Utah.
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