"In the name of god the creator of life and wisdom
That there is no better thought than that"

I was born on March 1933(1312) in bakhtiar and raised in Tehran. As early as second year of primary school I discovered a taste for literature within myself. I turned to Hafez and passed time with Masnavi and with love for Shahnameh I spent my days listening to Tehran’s Shahnameh narrators. Then I met an old serving spiritual advisor by the name of Khaloo who encouraged me to follow the art of narration. And that’s how I started narrating.

Hand of faith brought me to London, where I started narration at Saam House with the help of Soussan Farokhnia. It was here that I realised:

"No kingdom would last for ever
Except Art, which is the crown of all beings?"


Ghasem Karbalaei.