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Iranian Nights (1989)

NA56 minDrama

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A Channel Four special presentation of the Royal Court Theatre 1989 production, London. with Paul Bhattacharjee, Nabil Shaban and Fiona Victory. "Iranian Nights" was a play written and produced as a direct response by writers and artists to the notorious Feb 14 1989 Fatwa (a sentence of death) from Iran's leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, placed on Salman Rushdie for his novel "The Satanic Verses", regarded by fundamentalist Muslims as blasphemous.

Directed by Penny Cherns

Written by Howard Brenton, Tariq Ali

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Paul Bhattacharjee

Omar Khayyam

Nabil Shaban

Caliph

Fiona Victory

Scheherazade

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