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حاج سياح نخستين ايراني اي که آمريکايي شد Steve Holgate استاد دانشگاه واشنگتن ترجمه : مصطفي نامداري کارشناسي ارشد تاريخ ايران اسلامي دانشگاه شيراز اين سياح ايراني شبيه شخصيت هاي رمانتيک داستان هاي قرن نـوزدهم بـه مسـافرت پرداخت او در ايده اليسم شديد فرو رفته بود و سنت پوسـيده و کهنـه شـده را رد مـي کرد و کمتر به شانس معتقد بود و شبيه شخصيت هاي پـر احسـاس بـا خـودش رازي داشت که آن را براي بيش از صد سال در خفا قرار داد .
Many Iranians know that Mirza Mohamed Ali, better known as Hajj Sayyah, was one of the earliest and most important links between their country and the United States.
He came to the United States in the 1970s, another time of political upheaval in Iran, and a few years later faced, like Hajj Sayyah, the difficulties in living in an adopted culture.
Ferdowsi says that, without Hajj Sayyah's journals for these years, putting together even the bare outline of his travels in the United States "takes a lot of detective work.
The request intrigued Ferdowsi, who sought documentation from the United States Department of State which led him back to San Francisco, where he discovered Hajj Sayyah's secret.
In fact its greatness may lie in the fact that he did not stay, but took back to Persia what he had learned in the United States and in his other travels, the knowledge that freedom and democracy can improve the lot of the people.