Carthage Theater Festival to Home Persian show Sheikh Sanan

Ali-Akbar Khodashenas is the director of the play “Sanan”, which he has written himself based on a story from Persian mystic and poet Attar Neyshaburi’s masterpiece “The Conference of the Birds”.

 Shararhe Rokham, Amir-Ehsan Amirpur, Elaheh Pajuhi, Soheila Qoebani and Reza Enayati  will star in the show.
They had made numerous rehearsals to perform the play at the Tunisian festival.

 

The original story from “The Conference of the Birds” is about a celebrated sheikh named Sanan, who went from Mecca to Greece and fell in love with a Christian maiden.

 

At her suggestion, he converted to Christianity. When his disciples heard about this, they came to Greece and prayed to God that Sheikh Sanan would return to the right path.

 

Due to the disciples’ prayers, he revived his Muslim faith and returned to his home in the Hijaz. Then, repenting of her deed, the Christian maiden followed him and converted to Islam.