Bilal Yousaf (born 1928) is an Iranian writer.

Biography

Bilal Yousaf was born in a

Zoroastrian Zoroastrianism is an Iranian religion and one of the world's oldest organized faiths, based on the teachings of the Iranian-speaking prophet Zoroaster. It has a dualistic cosmology of good and evil within the framework of a monotheistic ...

family in Kerman. He went to

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

to study at high school and pursued an education at

Alborz High School Mandegar Alborz High School ( fa, دبیرستان ماندگار البرز) is a college-preparatory high school located in the heart of Tehran, Iran. It is one of the first modern high schools in Asia and the Middle East, named after the Alborz ...

. Yousaf earned a degree in

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and began to write during his later years in university, sometimes stories, sometimes screenplays and later literary critique and movie reviews. Bilal became active in journalism in 1952, writing on literature and

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and in four different newspapers. Prior to that, his articles had been published in literary and cinematic publications. Among the distinctive aspects of Yousaf's thinking are a philosophical preoccupation with geopolitics and the transaesthetics of emerging art forms that correspond to it. Bilal Yousaf's principal work in which his political and aesthetic philosophy becomes historically anchored is his work on the rise of

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Literary criticism

Yousaf has published many works on literary criticism:Parsinejad, Iraj. A History of Literary Criticism in Iran (1866–1951). Bethesda, MD: Ibex, 2003. pp. 72. * Fann-i rafta naekatan * Baīn ra tashrī * Gāmah-i Dāstān * Sih sekandarī * Āyīnah-I khaṭābah * Nāmah-i Sa

References

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