Hamid Mosadegh

Hamid Mosadegh (Persian: حمید مصدق, January 31, 1940, Shahreza, Isfahan, Iran - 28 November 1998, Tehran) was an Iranian poet.

Hamid Mosaddegh(Mosadegh, Mosadeq), the contemporary Iranian poet, lawyer. (born January 30,1939,died November 18,1998)

Early life: He was born in Shahrida, one of the Isfahan's towns. Young Mosaddegh compeleted primary and secondary education in Isfahan. Manochehr Badiee, Hoshang Golshiri, Mohammad Hoghooghi and Bahram Sadeghi were Mosaddegh's friends in high school. He had a social manner. He established Saeb Literary Association in Isfahan. He went to Tehran in 1960, and got his bachelors degree from University of Tehran. He then got his Masters degree in Economy. In 1966, he left Iran and for continuing education in England. In 1972 he got his administrative law degree from national university and became an assistant professor in faculty of University of Tehran and Kerman University, teching several Research Methods courses. From 1981, he began teaching law, especially Cooperative Law. He was faculty member of law college of Tehran and Allameh Tabatabaie university, lawyer of administration of justice, member of the bar association and editor in chief of journal of association. Beside working as a lawyer, he continued wrting poems and publishing some of them.

His career as a lawyer was also strongly effected by his life as a poet. Most of the cases he defended was other authors' cases, such as Simin Behbahani, a famous female Iranian poet.

Personal life: In 1972,he got married with Laleh Mosaddegh(Khoshknabi). They have two daughters: Ghazal and Taraneh. In 1998, he died because of heart attack and he was buried in "Ghate'ye Honarmandan" in Tehran.

On his tombstone has been written: "Remember us, whom in all life's night, Prowl for searching twilight. Remember us kindly and by heart."

A list of his famous books:

1. First and long versified "Royal flag",(derafsh e kaviyani)

2. Versified of "Blue,Black,Grey",(abi,khakestari, siah) This collection is not only romantic, but also political, revieling the emotions and dreams of Iranian young generation during 70s

3. In the Wind Direction(dar rahgozar e bad), 1968

4. From Separations(az jodayiha), 1979

5. Patience Years(salhay e saboori), 1990

6. Red Lion(shir e sorkh), 1997

7. Fibers(tarh hayee), A collection of his works

8. A Preface to Research Method

9. Collection of Molavi Quatrain

10. Hafez's sonnets

He also has published books in the field of Law.

In the words of critics one of the distinctive features of his poems is simplicity, fluency and sincerity. As Simin Behbahani argued: "Mosaddegh associated (Iranian's) humanistic goals with poetry." Hamid Mosaddegh was close to the heart of people and his poems are still read and loved by people of most ages and classes.