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230 panel discussion held in 24th TIBF event – minister
1390/03/02-08:30
Some 230 panel discussions were staged on different social and cultural themes during the 24th edition of Tehran International Book Fair (TIBF), Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance told a closing ceremony on May 24 of the landmark cultural event.
Sayyed Muhammad Husseini said the participating publishers, counting over 2400 from home and abroad, set a favorable record in the 24th edition of the TIBF in observing the rules and regulations of the book fair, namely their adherence to Islamic code of clothing and behavior, the book fair's press office reported.
The minister said the 24th book fair was distinct in that it hosted an ad hoc large pavilion set up in the fairground in commemoration of the memory of the lady of Islam, Hadhrat Fatema Zahra (S.A.) and that all available renditions of the Holy Koran into Persian carried out since the Islamic Revolution (1979) were on stalls in a special pavilion in the book fair.
Mr. Husseini also reminded the symbolic establishment of a replica of the Bahraini Lolo square, the symbol of Bahraini people's ongoing uprising against the sitting regime, which was demolished in March by the regime's forces in fear of the widening nationwide protests.
The replica and a nearby pavilion in memory of the Bahraini publisher Mr. al-Fakhravi who laid his life in the path of the protests was a distinct and innovative feature of the 24th cultural event, the minister added.
The minister also thanked the Islamic Revolution Leader Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei for his guidelines made during his 4-hour inspection of the landmark event on the seventh day of the 10-day book show.
A the last but not the least features of the book fair, Mr. Husseini touched on an ad hoc pavilion for providing the visitors with responses to their religious queries as well as a strong welcome accorded by the visitors to a series of publications on the eight-year Sacred Defense of the Iranian nation against the western backed invading forces of the executed dictator of Iraq, Saddam Hussein (1980-88).
