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Iranian Nights

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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 byPenny Cherns

Play
Status
Released
Runtime
0h 56m
Language
EN
Released
January 1, 1989
Studios
Bandung Productions

Featuring

Cast & crew

3 credited
Starring

Paul Bhattacharjee

Omar Khayyam

Nabil Shaban

Nabil Shaban

Caliph

Fiona Victory

Fiona Victory

Scheherazade

Creative team
Directed by
Penny Cherns
Written by
Howard Brenton
Tariq Ali
Tariq Ali
Produced by
Tariq Ali
Tariq Ali

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