Ali Baba’s Book Series on: Artistic Flags - Book Four

In this installment of Ali Baba's series, the unifying power of football (soccer) is celebrated through the depiction of national flags, honoring countries that have participated in the FIFA World Cup. It highlights the sport's ability to bridge differences and foster global friendship, underscoring the sacrifices of players for their nations. The book showcases flags in a unique style, using fleece and embroidery, to thank countries for their contributions to creating lasting memories. All finalists are represented, celebrating their role in uniting the world.

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About the Author: Ali Langroodi
My late parents were residing by the Caspian Sea when they met. My father was a teacher and later in his career he obtained an administrative job in the Department of Education. My mother was a housewife. I was born by the Caspian Sea and even to this day I have very fond and colorful memories from the beautiful scenery of that region, both the blue Caspian Sea and its surrounding green mountains. However, I did not have much exposure to arts when growing up, maybe except for some poetry.

I migrated to U.S.A. in 1985 and completed my M.S. and PhD in biology and microbiology. Later on, my interest shifted from studying molecular biology sciences to the field of medicine. I became very fascinated with understanding the complexity of human mind and interpersonal relationships. Thus, I went to medical school and became a psychiatrist.

In the U.S., I got exposure to a variety of art projects (painting, drawing, embroidery, poetry, song writing, and music). I also started to take notice of many great authors who made masterpieces in literature as well as fun and engaging novels such as John Steinbeck, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and John Grisham.

At first, I found myself enjoying the mere participation in the art projects with almost no sense of direction. However, gradually, my love for travel and understanding other cultures and customs and my excitement for applying bright colors all coincided and I became very interested to draw flags of different countries as a way of expressing myself.

My message is simple. I draw and paint flags of different countries to express my appreciation of all cultures and customs. Also, I am hoping that by drawing flags I could bring people of different backgrounds closer to each other. I have started the Ali Baba's book series on artistic flags and hoping to publish several books in this series. Each book has its unique message of friendship and love. This is the book three in this series, celebrating 100 countries for their participation in the Olympic Games throughout the history. With respect to music, I like to consider myself a lyricist. I have published five songs in the popular online music stores under my stage name Caspean. Writing and publishing of my first novel is in its early stage of planning.

I would like to take this opportunity and express my sincere love and appreciation to my late mother, Maryam and my late grandmother, my dear nana, Rokeyah. Their genuine love and support and their sacrifices took me to where I am now. Also, I am very much influenced by their message of love, kindness, and friendship, both in practice and in preach. I am determined to continue their way of appreciating life through my paintings, music, and novels.

As I said, as a child, I never had a formal education in art. However, Googoosh, the Persian diva, used radio and TV and magazines ( the only tools available at that time) to open my eyes and many youths to the world of art. She allowed us to believe that there was hope and future. For that, I am forever indebted to her. She gracefully filled my heart and million others with her beauty, magical voice, and extraordinary choreography and dance. She continues to entertain millions of people around the world. She is simply the best and the only one.
I depict the flags of different countries as a way to express my appreciation and respect to all nations. Also by drawing flags I convey my wishes, hopes and dreams for achieving friendship and cooperation among all nations. This has been the trend for all the books in the Ali Baba’s book series.

In this book, I am using the game of football (soccer) to make my point. It is truly a miracle as how football has served as a conduit for so many years in bringing people across the globe together. Football exemplifies as how different nations could overcome their differences and compete peacefully with one another and at the end gather in one place to celebrate their accomplishments. In the recent cycles of World Cup tournaments at least 200 countries have taken on the tough task of qualifying games every four years. Considering that there are very limited spots for the finalists, the enormity of these competitions become more evident. At the end, only one country takes the gold trophy and becomes the world championship. Despite all these hard works and the apparent heartbreaks, all the nations come back every four years more motivated than ever to give their best with the hope of capturing the glory of championship. Thus, I would like to highlight the tremendous efforts put forward by all nations to make FIFA World Cup tournaments possible.

Perhaps many of us do not realize as how much sacrifices these young players make to proudly display their national flags side by side with other nations during the World Cup tournaments. Examining the list of qualifying games reveals a vast array of differences among the competing teams. Sometimes the richest country goes face to face against the poorest nation; sometimes the smallest country goes head to head with the largest country. However, these disparities have not deterred these young athletes from giving their best. Thus, I am honoring all the countries that have ever participated in the qualifying games and appeared in the World Cup Tournaments throughout the history. I feel I am obligated to depict their beautiful flags to simply thank them for creating so many beautiful, unforgettable and everlasting memories.

In this book, all the finalists over the years are represented in alphabetical order and not in the order of highest to lowest trophy winners. The goal is to celebrate the great victory of those teams that could make it to the rank of the finalists in the FIFA World Cup tournaments. Of course, the bigger goal is to celebrate their much greater victory in bringing people across all continents together.

I would like to depict a different style of flags in each book. Thus I have decided to use fleece and embroidery in place of brush and paint in this book. Since these book series represent the artistic flags, as such the flags are not drawn to their standard dimensions. The emblems have either been symbolically replaced by other figures or been eliminated.

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