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BRICKS AND CERAMICS INDUSTRY
Traditional brick-kilns are still found all over the country. A European established the first modern brick-kiln around 1905. However, it was only in 1935 that a German engineer constructed the so-called “Hoffman brick-kiln,” with its characteristic high chimney, in south Tehran.
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BĀDHĀ ḴABAR AZ TAḠYIR-e FAṢL MIDĀDAND
(The winds presaged the changing of season), novel by the fiction writer and literary critic, Jamal Mirsadeqi. Set in the 1960s in Tehran, it revolves around the novel’s narrator and his friends and neighbors, of poverty-stricken families.