(Iranian Nights)

Content: A Channel Four special presentation of the Royal Court Theatre 1989 production, London. with Paul Bhattacharjee, Nabil Shaban and Fiona Victory. "Iranian Nights" was a play written and produced as a direct response by writers and artists to the notorious Feb 14 1989 Fatwa (a sentence of death) from Iran's leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, placed on Salman Rushdie for his novel "The Satanic Verses", regarded by fundamentalist Muslims as blasphemous.

Countries:

United Kingdom

Genres:

Drama

Runtime:

56 minutes

Year:

1989

Directors:

Penny Cherns

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Production companies:

Bandung Productions

Actors:

Omar Khayyam

Caliph

Scheherazade

Crews:

Writer

Writer

Director

Set Designer

Producer