Monir Taha, Iran's first female songwriter, dies

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-Friday 2025/05/02 - 13:48
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 منیر طه، نخستین ترانه‌سرای زن ایران درگذشت

Munir Taha (Taha) wrote his first song "Moonlight Night" at the age of 14 for the song of the same name by Ali Tajvidi

Munir Taha, the songwriter of the most pleasant songs, who was known as the "first female songwriter", passed away on Wednesday evening, April 30, 2025, at the age of 96 in Vancouver, Canada.

Monir Taha (Taha) wrote his first song, "Moonlight Night", at the age of fourteen for a song of the same name by Ali Tajvidi, and sang this song under the name of Shahrzad with the Tajvidi music group, accompanied by the song of Hossein Ghavami, on the radio. He collaborated with Ali Tajvidi, Gholamhossein Banan, and Marzieh in the Colorful Flowers program of the radio.

Monir Taha was the founder and lecturer of the Department of Italian Language and Literature at the University of Tehran, the head of the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Tehran, and the director of the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Tehran for many years. After the first revolution, he immigrated to Italy and then to Canada, where he became a professor of Persian language and literature at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, etc. Was.

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