 In 1991 Ahmad Saidi (1904–1994) produced an English translation of 165 quatrains grouped into 10 themes.Born and raised in Iran, Saidi went to the United States in 1931 and attended college there.He served as the head of the Persian Publication Desk at the U.S. Office of War Information during World War II, inaugurated the Voice of America to Iran, and prepared an English-Persian military dictionary for the Department of Defense.