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In the spring of 2022, the theatre company of Tehran's Fanous Art and Culture House decided to begin work on staging a contemporary adaptation of The Conference of the Birds by Farid al-Din Attar, the 12th-century Persian poet. Fanous planned to collaborate with Marco Berrettini, an Italian-German choreographer. The goal was a new reading of the poem in light of Iran's contemporary social circumstances.

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In the spring of 2022, Tehran's Fanous Art and Culture House theatre company decided to stage a contemporary adaptation of 12th-century Persian poet Farid al-Din Attar's "The Conference of the Birds." Collaborating with Italian-German choreographer Marco Berrettini, Fanous aimed to provide a new interpretation of the poem in light of Iran's modern-day social circumstances.