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Mojtaba Moradi Sanjabi

Kurdish-language poet

b. 1980/81

Mojtaba Moradi, pen name “Sanjabi”, is a Kurdish-language poet born in 1359 SH (1980/81) in Eslamabad-e Gharb. The radio station of the Kermanshah broadcasting centre interviewed him in spring 1397 SH (2018; reporter: Babak Majidi).

Between 2017 and 2025 the “Navaye Tanbur” channel published dozens of his Kurdish poems, most of them in praise of the Yari faith and the Heydari tekyeh, for the Khavandkar feast and Nowruz, and on spring and rain. A poem in memory of Taher Yarveysi is also his. Some of his poems appear in his own recitation, among them a poem on spring (March 2017), “Deng-e Saz” (The Sound of the Instrument, March 2019) and the Kurdish prayer “Waran” (Rain, November 2025). On 7 Farvardin 1404 SH (27 March 2025) he recited poetry at the Nowruz celebration in Zawaleh (Dalahu, Guran, Qalkhani).

Source: Telegram channel “Navaye Tanbur”, 2017–2025; short introduction quoting the “Navaye Yar” video institute.

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