Ghassem Hasheminezhad or Ghasem Hasheminejad (Persian: قاسم هاشمینژاد; September 24, 1940 – April 1, 2016)[1] was a Persian Literary critic, writer, journalist, screenwriter and sufi. Nezhad was the author of the novel ‘Elephant in the Dark’. He was a critic and author who has worked for the Ayandegan newspaper.[2]
Contemporary Persian and Classical Persian are the same language, but writers since 1900 are classified as contemporary. At one time, Persian was a common cultural language of much of the non-Arabic Islamic world. Today it is the official language of Iran, Tajikistan and one of the two official languages of Afghanistan.
