Moayed ol Mamalek Fekri Ershad

Moayed-ol Mamalek Fekri Ershad (Persian: مؤیدالممالک فکری ارشاد‎‎) (1869-1916) was an Iranian journalist and playwright. He was born in Tehran and studied in Dar ul-Funun. In the time of constitutional movement in Iran he was a supporter of this movement and when the Persian Constitutional Revolution happened, he was 37. In this time he was the editor of “Sobhe Sadegh”, a political and revolutionary newspaper. He was arrested in 1908 after the coup d'état of Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar. He was also a playwright and wrote several plays in which he criticized politicians of his time.