TEHRAN – Iranian director Hooman Zarif’s documentary “Children’s Songwriter” on the life of Persian poet Abbas Yamini-Sharif will go on screen at the African Middle Eastern Reading Room of the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. on April 19. 

Hooman Yamini-Sharif is the producer of the film, which also gives a brief history of children’s literature in modern Iran.

The screening is part of “The Persian Book Lecture Series”, a program which has been organized by the Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland and the Near East Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress.

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