Aziz Motazedi is an Iranian novelist and essayist. He has lived in Montreal

Montreal

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, Canada

Canada

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, since 1995. Motazedi has also written critical articles on politics as well as the literary and intellectual discourses of his original country and elsewhere. His novel Scheherazade was subject to an official ban with a possibility to be published after heavy censorship by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance

Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance

The Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance is the ministry of Culture of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It is responsible for restricting access to any media of which the Islamic Regime in Tehran does not approve....

, and it was finally published, in full, with several years delay in Toronto, Canada.