The recent passing away of Master Sa’adat Moluk Tabesh was a sad occurrence for the literary community in Afghanistan. Armanshahr Foundation’s 62nd Goftegu public meeting was allocated to the memory of Master Tabesh. The event was organised in cooperation with Fadaei Herawi Publishing House and Information and Culture Director of Herat, at the historical Howse Chaharsou in Herat on Sunday 17 October 2010.
Tabesh was a familiar name to the literary people in Afghanistan. He wrote more than 50 books on literature, mysticism, politics and social issues and was deemed as one of the forerunners of poetry in Afghanistan. Having actively opposed the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and lived in Iran for many years, he returned home to Herat in the final years of his life. His regular meetings on poetry and Mowlana were among the best literary circles in Herat.
The meeting, as noted in the invitation letter, was not intended for shedding tears, but to pay tribute to a master who spent a lifetime on teaching, research and writing without concentrating on his private interests.
A number of poets recited their poems and those of Tabesh and occasionally reminisced about him. Among them were: Baratali Fadaei Herawi, Mohammad Zahir Rostami, Assadollah Yousefi, Ramin Arabnejad, Abdolvasse Zahir Haydarzadeh, Fariba Haydari, Roya Sharifi, Ali Shah Hakimi, Baha’eddin Baha-Taymouri, Farideh Rahmani, Elahe Sahel, and Nezameddin Shokuhi. Master Jawad Tabesh, the classical singer, brought the meeting to a deserving conclusion by singing a sonnet from the late master.
Over 200 cultural and literary activists, and academics as well as representatives of the Herat state TV and Mihan TV attended the meeting.
Invitation for 62nd Goftegu Public Debate: “I have never spoken of not speaking!”
