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Yousef Majidzadeh and Ahmad Aram, Iranian cultural figures, die
Yousef Majidzadeh, a pioneering archaeologist known for excavations at Jiroft, and Ahmad Aram, a writer who chronicled southern Iran, have died, NIAC reported. Aram died after complications from gastrointestinal cancer.
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Majidzadeh was born in Tabriz and studied at the University of Tehran and the University of Illinois in Chicago. He excavated at Tepe Ozbaki, Tepe Qabrestan and Jiroft, where work at Konar Sandal uncovered evidence of sophisticated settlements and millennia-old cultural connections, helping challenge the traditional focus on Mesopotamia as the main center of early civilization. Some of his interpretations remain debated among scholars.
Aram was born in Bushehr and published his first short story at 18 in the literary magazine Ferdowsi. His first collection, A Stranger in the Salt Mist, appeared in 2000, and his fiction blended folklore, surrealism and the lives of people along Iran’s southern coast. NIAC said he died after complications from gastrointestinal cancer.
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