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Cabinet to establish a panel to look into book affairs
Cabinet to establish a panel to look into book affairs

  A panel will soon be created by the 10 th Administration to look into publication affairs, First Vice President Mohammad-Reza Rahimi said Tuesday.   Rahimi made the remarks in an inaugural ceremony of a 23 rd International Tehran Book Fair where he noted that the panel would be assigned with a strategic goal of promotion of book reading habit.   According to Rahimi, the panel is meant to spread a cross functional supportive umbrella in the culture sector besides ...

2010-05-06 08:30
Director of domestic publishers department in 23rd Int'l Tehran Book Fair:
Director of domestic publishers department in 23rd Int'l Tehran Book Fair:

1915 domestic publishers complete procedures for book fair   Director of domestic publishers department in Tehran International Book Fair said 1915 publishers from home were registered in the book fair until April 18.   Mahmoud Salari told the book fair press office that until April 18, 2032 domestic publishers had applied for a space in the sections of general subject, children and youngsters, academic publication and training materials out of which 1915 are authorized to take part.   Out of ...

2010-04-29 08:30
Subsidy-boosted credit cards for sales of foreign publications up for grabs until end of fair
Subsidy-boosted credit cards for sales of foreign publications up for grabs until end of fair

A series of subsidized credit cards for sales of foreign publications are up for grabs until the end of the 23 rd International Tehran Book Fair. The cards have been on offer since several days ago.   Applicants are invited to obtain the cards at selected branches of Bank Saderat across the country. A list of selections was published in mass circulation newspapers on Monday, April 26.   Forouq Fakhari, authority in charge of distribution of the foreign sales credit ...

2010-04-29 08:30
Customs office clears half of materials of 32 foreign publishers
Customs office clears half of materials of 32 foreign publishers

IRI Customs Office have cleared half of materials dispatched by 32 foreign publishers, Deputy of international section in the 23 rd International Tehran Book Fair said.   Ali Alipour told the press office of the 23 rd book fair that customs procedures have been completed for the publishers from several countries including Syria , Egypt , Iraq , Saudi Arabia , United Arab Emirates , Qatar , Kuwait , Oman , Bahrain , Britain , Germany , Spain , Switzerland ...

2010-04-29 08:30
List of publishers at hand in 23rd International Tehran Book Fair released
List of publishers at hand in 23rd International Tehran Book Fair released

A list of countries which have applied for a pavilion in the 23 rd International Tehran Book Fair or would have their materials offered by other publishers in the fair was released.   Accordion to press office of the book fair, publishers from such countries as Jordan , Lebanon , Syria , Egypt , Iraq , Saudi Arabia , United Arab Emirates , Qatar , Kuwait , Oman , Bahrain , Britain , United States of America , Germany , ...

2010-04-29 08:30
Pavilions of foreign publishers to be delivered as of April 28
Pavilions of foreign publishers to be delivered as of April 28

With a plan of pavilions finally drawn up for the marquee of foreign publishers, foreign applicants start to receive their book fair spaces as of Wednesday, April 28, 2010, Deputy of international department in the 23 rd International Tehran Book Fair said.   Up until now, necessary visas have already been acquired for 80 guests and 100 publishers to the foreign section of the book fair, Ali Alipour told the press office of the book fair.   He called on ...

2010-04-29 08:30
Best foot put forward for staging of 23rd book fair event
Best foot put forward for staging of 23rd book fair event

Chief Executive of the 23 rd International Tehran Book Fair vowed the authorities of the event would put their best foot forward in staging of this edition of fair.   Mohsen Parviz expressed hope the event would become a major show with least of problems after several modifications to location of pavilions and layout of fair booths.   Parviz said facilities for sales of books were up for grabs by university students, government staffs and educationalists, with university students eligible ...

2010-04-29 08:30
Iran is land of orators and Shahnameh is its magnum opus
Iran is land of orators and Shahnameh is its magnum opus

  "We have many great rhetors in the land of Iran . Magna opera in Iran are so that each of them alone flaunts grandeur and survival of a people and helps the name of Iran to endure," Dr. Mir Jalaloddin Kazazi, a veteran researcher in Shahnameh studies told a panel held in House of Authors Friday May 15 under the banner of "panel of millennium of Shahnameh of Ferdowsi." According to the news arm of the House of Authors, ...

2009-05-17 08:30
Bosnia to dispatch top ranking cultural delegation to Tehran
Bosnia to dispatch top ranking cultural delegation to Tehran

  Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina has planned to send a high ranking delegation to Tehran also with a cultural mission along with diplomatic and economic ones, Armin Limhon, Bosnian charge d'affairs in Tehran said. He said at present the cultural relations between the two countries were supercedes economic relations but lags behind diplomatic ties, adding that he hoped the cultural ties would improve through several programs already on agenda of the country. On another regard, Limhon was positive about ...

2009-05-17 08:30
Top publishers of 22nd TIBF awarded
Top publishers of 22nd TIBF awarded

  Final day of 22 nd Tehran International Book Fair was wrapped with board of judges awarding top pavilions among general publishers, university publishers, educational publishers, children publishers and non-capital-based publishers in the two private and state-run categories. The board of judges in the 22 nd TIBF chose best publishers after taking into account several qualifications, namely publication of useful, serious books, diversity and number of titles, number of first edition books, size and content of fringe activities in the ...

2009-05-17 08:30
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