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ḤAMIDI ŠIRĀZI
Ḥamidi left Shiraz for Tehran in 1934 and enrolled in the Teachers College of Tehran University, where he received a B.A. degree in Persian Literature in 1937, graduating at the top of his class. He returned to Shiraz as a high school teacher, and a year later he published his first collection of poems, Šoku-fahā “Blossoms.”
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ANTI-ALBORZ
the highland between Tehran and Semnān on the southern flank of the central Alborz range.