Iranian Nights

56 mins
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.

Paul Bhattacharjee

Omar Khayyam

Fiona Victory

Scheherazade

Penny Cherns

Director

Tariq Ali

Writer

Colin Pigott

Set Designer

Tariq Ali

Producer

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