Sane Jaleh (A Brick in the Wall) currently banned by Iranian regime due to its dissident contents; and his Kurdish and Sunni background (neither group being known for its support of the Islamic Republic). According to the source Tehran Bureau, the official version appeared to resemble the "well-orchestrated disinformation operation" employed by the government "to blame anyone but its security forces for the death of Neda Agha Soltan during the unrest of 2009." Suspicion has been cast on official reports of Jaleh's death by the evolution its portrayal of Jaleh first simply as a "devout student," then as a "regime sympathizer," and
Arash Hejazi known novel "The Princess of the Land of Eternity" was shortlisted for two major Iranian literary prizes and has sold more than 20,000 copies in Iran since its first publication in 2003. He in 2009 he received his MA in Publishing from Oxford Brookes University. His dissertation on censorship in Iran was published in the publishing journal "Logos" in 2011, and his memoir "The Gaze of the Gazelle" about growing up in Iran after the Islamic Revolution was published by Chicago University Press in 2011. He was present at the death of Neda Agha-Soltan during the 2009 Iranian election protests,