Brazilian ambassador to Tehran said Tehran International Book Fair connects the four continents and helps open the doors of interaction and exchanges between Brazil and the Islamic Republic, the book fair's press office reported Thursday.   Antonio Luis Espinola Salgado made the remarks after paying a visit to the 24 th edition of the landmark cultural event.   The Brazilian envoy said the book fair offers ample capacities to both sides to expand the levels of their bilateral sides and ...

2011-05-14 08:30

Speaker of the IRI Islamic Consultative Assembly (parliament) Ali Larijani inspected the 24 th edition of Tehran International Book Fair on Friday, the tenth day of the major international cultural event, the book fair's press office reported.   Mr. Larijani visited the book fair's ad hoc hall of publications and was briefed on the latest titles on stalls as well as latest statistics and data on the status of domestic publications in 2010.   The ad hoc hall hosts a ...

2011-05-14 08:30

A panel discussion was staged Thursday in 24 th edition of Tehran International Book Fair on the status of modern and post-modern poetry in the contemporary Afghan literary tradition, the book fair's press office reported.   Held in the Latin titles hall in the fairground, the panelists discussed the position of mind and expression in literature as well as application of key symbolic terms in conveying of realities on the ground in society, it added.   The session also examined ...

2011-05-14 08:30

A first ever translation into French of Ser-o-Salat (lit. the secret of prayers), the masterpiece of Imam Ruhollah Musawi Khomeini, the late founder of Islamic Republic of Iran is up for grab in the 24 th edition of Tehran International Book Fair.   IRI cultural offices in Tunisia have commissioned the landmark translation work into French, the book fair's press office.   The masterpiece broaches the role of daily prayers in self purification and nurture of individuals in society while ...

2011-05-14 08:30

Visitors to the 24 th edition of Tehran International Book Fair (TIBF) have collectively made more than 2 million enquiries in seven days at information offices situated across the fairground in Imam Khomeini Mosalla (grand mosque), north of Tehran .   The visitors have made their enquiries through telephone lines or the Internet or have turned to the information centers in person, receiving data or maps of pavilions, Dariush Motallebi, director of TIBF information department told the book fair's press ...

2011-05-14 08:30

Visitors to the 24 th edition of Tehran International Book Fair (TIBF) have collectively made more than 2 million enquiries in seven days at information offices situated across the fairground in Imam Khomeini Mosalla (grand mosque), north of Tehran .   The visitors have made their enquiries through telephone lines or the Internet or have turned to the information centers in person, receiving data or maps of pavilions, Dariush Motallebi, director of TIBF information department told the book fair's press ...

2011-05-14 08:30

IRI Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance has decided to extend more book sales facilities to university students and authors from provincial areas by covering up to half of the costs of the sales they make through voucher cards in the 24 th Tehran International Book Fair.   That was according to Bahman Dorri, Chief Executive of the landmark cultural event, who also told the book fair's press office that the facilities were part of total 40 billion rials (≈ ...

2011-05-14 08:30

A top Iranian Alim called on state cultural authorities to supply different domestic publications on Islamic and Koranic themes to the Farsi speaking nations neighboring Iran . Hojjat-ol-Islam Muhammad-Reza Naseri asserted that the nations must be supplied with contents that adopt a logical and argumentative approach to Islamic notions.   , delegate of Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei in Charmahal va Bakhtiyari Province issued the call during a talk with Bahman Dorri, Chief Executive of the 24 th edition of Tehran ...

2011-05-14 08:30

A prominent German scholar in literary studies holds that Iranian and European tales in large part mirror one another in the way they proceed and the content they offer.   Ulrich Marzolph, a senior authority in charge of World Storytelling Institute (WSI), was speaking to a panel discussion on the effect of storey telling and traditional plays of Iran and other nations on the development of life skill in children, staged on the sidelines of the 24 th edition of ...

2011-05-14 08:30

IRI Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Sayyed Muhammad Husseini welcomed suggestions that Tehran book fair would rather be staged thematically, adding however that any plans to stage a thematic book fair inevitably would require a vast area of land.   Mr. Husseini was speaking to reporters Wednesday on the sidelines of the 24 th edition of Tehran International Book Fair, the book fair's press office reported.   The Iranian culture minister suggested delay the debate until after a permanent ...

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