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Nastaliq

Lady Cockroach

Lady Cockroach

Lady Cockroach is a short play for children published in 1929 in the city of Shiraz, Iran.
According to the cover, the author Mirza Jabbar Askarzadeh (often known as Jabbar Baghtcheban) was the head-teacher of a kindergarten in Shiraz. He later established the first Iranian kindergarten for the deaf, and was the inventor of Persian cued speech.

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Nastaliq on electricity jack

Calligraphy in Everyday Life

Nastaliq and Shekaste styles of Iranian calligraphy have been in use since 16 century. At the beginning they where the styles of choice for writing the royal orders and decrees, official documents, and books of literature. Today they are used everywhere, sometimes on the most ordinary objects of everyday life.

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