Ghassem Hasheminezhad or Ghasem Hasheminejad (Persian: قاسم هاشمی‌نژاد; September 24, 1940 – April 1, 2016)^[1] was a Persian Literary critic, writer, journalist, screenwriter and sufi. Nezhad was the author of the novel ‘Elephant in the Dark’. He is a critic and author who has worked for the Ayandegan newspaper.^[2]