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TEHRAN – A number of Egyptian students of the Persian language along with their teachers visited the Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia (CGIE) in Tehran on Sunday.

 

The group coming from different universities in Egypt including Cairo University, Al-Azhar University, and Ain Shams University are visiting Iran at the invitation of Iran’s Sadi Foundation, the Persian service of MNA reported on Monday.

 

“The guests have participated in their daily Persian language classes every morning, and have visited several cultural centers and universities across the city in the afternoons during their 12-day visit,” CGIE Literature Department Director Mehran Afshari said.

 

“Their trip will come to an end tomorrow and I hope they have been able to find good Persian language sources in here,” he said.

 

Persian language and literate is popular in Egypt and several universities across the country are teaching the Persian language, he added.

 

“We are hoping that cultural relations between Iran and Egypt develop and student exchange between the two countries commences again,” he stated.

 

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Iranian troupes win awards at Fajr Intl. Theater Festival

February 2, 2015, 10:31 am

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TEHRAN – Iranian troupes have won all awards in the national and international sections of the 33rd Fajr International Fajr Festival.

 

The winners were announced during the closing ceremony of the festival at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on Sunday.

 

The award for best director in the international section went to Mohammad Mosavat for his play “Fa.Mi.Ly”.

 

Mahin Sadri was picked as the best dramatist in this section for “Fellowship”, and Elham Korda and Setareh Eskandari shared the best actress award for their roles in the play, which was directed by Afsaneh Mahian.

 

The special jury award was presented to director Iman Eskandari for “The Man Outside”. He also won the best stage designing award for the play. 

 

Khosro Shahraz won the best actor award for his role in “Oliver Twist”, which was directed by Asghar Khalili, and Tumaj Danesh-Behzadi received the best actress award for “The Man Outside”.

 

Bahar Ilchi won the best music award for her composition for “Wow” directed by Tinu Salehi.

 

In the national section, the awards for best director and best playwright went to Kheirollah Taqianipur for “Turkey”.

 

The 33rd Fajr International Theater Festival was held in Tehran from January 21 to February 1.

 

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Members of Iranian Strategy Council for International Cinematic Affairs selected

February 2, 2015, 10:35 am

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TEHRAN -- Cinema Organization of Iran (COI) Director Hojjatollah Ayyubi has selected the members of the Iranian Strategy Council for International Cinematic Affairs, which implements policies of the COI in the international arena and exploits the potentials of Iranian cinema in public diplomacy.

 

Former diplomats Seyyed Mohammad-Sadeq Kharrazi, Hamidreza Asefi and Mohammad Ruhisefat are among those appointed to the council, COI announced in a press release on Monday.

 

In addition, actor and producer Alireza Shojanuri, producers Mohammad-Ali Hossein-nejad and Ali Mo’allem, Morteza, and directors Morteza Razzaq-Karimi and Mohammad-Mehdi Asgarpur were also selected for the council. 

 

Concerning Mohammad-Javad Shabestari, another member of the council, no background was mentioned.

 

The director of the COI, who is also the deputy culture minister for cinematic affairs, is the president of the council.

 

The director of the International Department and the secretary of the council, the directors of the Farabi Cinema Foundation and the Institute for Visual Media are also the members of the board.  

 

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Iran seeks registration of natural, historical sites in UNESCO

February 2, 2015, 10:36 am

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TEHRAN – Iran has recently submitted two documents on the Lut Desert and Iranian aqueducts (qanats) for registration on UNESCO’s list of the Natural World Heritage Sites and the World Heritage List.

 

UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee will decide on the registration of the historical and natural heritage sites during its session in 2016, Deputy Director of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Organization (CHTHO) Mohammad-Hassan Talebian told the Persian service of ISNA on Monday.

 

Covering an area of about 51,800 square kilometers, the Lut Desert is a large salt desert in southeastern Kerman and is the world’s 25th largest desert.

 

Qanats are underground aqueducts that are mainly found in the desert regions of the country such as Yazd. The artificial channels carry water from aquifers in the hills to the fields below and are still use today.

 

Information on 11 qanats, including Baladeh Qanat and Zarech Qanat in Yazd, Hassanabad Moshir Qanat in Mehriz, and Doqolu Qanat in Bam have been provided for the documents that Iran sent to UNESCO for registering qanats, Talebian said.

 

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Benyamin to link Valentine’s Day with Sepandarmazgan in London, Tehran

February 2, 2015, 10:38 am

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TEHRAN -- Logan Hall of the University of London and Tehran’s Milad Tower will host fans of Iranian pop star Benyamin for concerts, which aim to forge link between Valentine’s Day and Sepandarmazgan, an ancient celebration during which Iranian people honor the female members of their families with presents.

 

The London concert will be held on February 14, which is Valentine’s Day, and his Tehran gig is scheduled to be done on February 18, which is the day of Sepandarmazgan.

 

“By chance, my concert in London will coincided with Valentine Day, which is the day of love in the West, and the Tehran concert will coincided with the day of Sepandarmazgan,” he said in a press release on Monday.

 

“We thought we would use this coincidence as a chance to promote Iranian culture at the London concert so we called the concerts ‘the festival Iranian love’,” he added.

 

“We do not need to be copycats of Western customs, which belong to their culture, because we have more attractive examples in the customs in our own culture,” stated Benyamin, who belongs to the new generation of Iranian pop singers.

 

Benyamin’s 4-year-old daughter, Barana, will accompany him during his trip to London. His wife, Nasim Heshmati, was killed in a car crash in Tehran in December 2013.

 

Benyamin’s 2006 album, “85”, was warmly welcomed within Iran and with the Iranian diaspora abroad. His smash hits include “Memories” (“Khatereha”), “Stutter” (“Loknat”) and “Robot” (“Adam Ahani”).

 

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Gilaki music ensemble to perform in Moscow

February 2, 2015, 10:43 am

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TEHRAN -- Gil and Amard, an ensemble from the northern Iranian province of Gilan, will perform several concerts of Gilaki folk music in Moscow.

 

The concerts, which have been organized by the Iranian cultural attaché’s office to celebrate the anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution, will begin on Thursday.

 

The ensemble comprised of five members will perform its new and popular pieces during the concerts, singer Nasser Vahdati, who is also the leader of the ensemble, told the Persian service of MNA.

 

Gil and Amard will also give a performance at the 30th Fajr International Music Festival, which will be held from February 13 to 20.

 

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Egyptian students and teachers of Persian language visit Iranian center

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TEHRAN – A number of Egyptian students of the Persian language along with their teachers visited the Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia (CGIE) in Tehran on Sunday.

 

The group coming from different universities in Egypt including Cairo University, Al-Azhar University, and Ain Shams University are visiting Iran at the invitation of Iran’s Sadi Foundation, the Persian service of MNA reported on Monday.

 

“The guests have participated in their daily Persian language classes every morning, and have visited several cultural centers and universities across the city in the afternoons during their 12-day visit,” CGIE Literature Department Director Mehran Afshari said.

 

“Their trip will come to an end tomorrow and I hope they have been able to find good Persian language sources in here,” he said.

 

Persian language and literate is popular in Egypt and several universities across the country are teaching the Persian language, he added.

 

“We are hoping that cultural relations between Iran and Egypt develop and student exchange between the two countries commences again,” he stated.

 

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Iranian troupes win awards at Fajr Intl. Theater Festival

February 2, 2015, 10:31 am

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TEHRAN – Iranian troupes have won all awards in the national and international sections of the 33rd Fajr International Fajr Festival.

 

The winners were announced during the closing ceremony of the festival at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on Sunday.

 

The award for best director in the international section went to Mohammad Mosavat for his play “Fa.Mi.Ly”.

 

Mahin Sadri was picked as the best dramatist in this section for “Fellowship”, and Elham Korda and Setareh Eskandari shared the best actress award for their roles in the play, which was directed by Afsaneh Mahian.

 

The special jury award was presented to director Iman Eskandari for “The Man Outside”. He also won the best stage designing award for the play. 

 

Khosro Shahraz won the best actor award for his role in “Oliver Twist”, which was directed by Asghar Khalili, and Tumaj Danesh-Behzadi received the best actress award for “The Man Outside”.

 

Bahar Ilchi won the best music award for her composition for “Wow” directed by Tinu Salehi.

 

In the national section, the awards for best director and best playwright went to Kheirollah Taqianipur for “Turkey”.

 

The 33rd Fajr International Theater Festival was held in Tehran from January 21 to February 1.

 

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February 3, 2015, 10:22 am

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Russian muftis visit Iran

TEHRAN- A group of 23 Russian muftis arrived in Iran on Monday to visit with Iranian officials and ulama.

 

On the first part of their itinerary, the group met the director of the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO), Abuzar Ebrahimi Torkaman on Tuesday.

 

The delegation led by the director of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims in Rostov region, Mufti Jafar Bikmayev, has been invited to Iran by the ICRO.

 

 

Loehlin’s biography of Chekhov published in Persian

TEHRAN - A Persian translation of U.S. author James N. Loehlin’s “The Cambridge Introduction to Chekhov” has recently been published in Iran.

 

The book highlighting the life story of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov was translated by Ali Akbar Pishdasti.

 

The book was originally published by the Cambridge University Press in 2010 and the Persian version was published by the Qoqnus Company.

 

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Kurdish director’s debut film chronicles love story in Halabja tragedy

February 3, 2015, 10:30 am

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TEHRAN -- Iranian Kurdish director Ahmad Ramezanzadeh’s debut film, “The Story of Love”, tells a tale of love set in the aftermath of the Iraqi chemical weapons attack on the Kurdish city of Halabja in 1988.

 

The film is competing in the New Vision section, which screens works from first-time filmmakers, at the 33rd Fajr Film Festival that is underway in the Tehran. 

 

The movie is based on a real-life story about an Iranian photographer who arrived in Halabja a few hours after the chemical weapons attack. He met a woman while he was trying to help the victims of the attack.   

 

“I was born in Kurdistan,” Ramezanzadeh said in a review session held after the screening of the film on Monday.

 

“I have had the tragedy of Halabja in mind for years. I began writing the screenplay for the film in 2009 and spent three years making the film,” he said.

 

“The people of Halabja took refuge across the borders in Iran despite the fact that they had Iraqi nationality. Our people warmly welcomed them. This humanitarian issue is worthy of being highlighted in a movie,” he added.

 

The film’s stars Bahram Radan and Kurdish actress Shilan Rahmani also attended the review session, which was held at Milad Tower.

 

Radan said that the film gave him the opportunity to appear once again in a movie on the theme of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.

 

He previously played the role of a war veteran in director Rakhshan Bani-Etemad’s “Gilaneh”. 

 

Rahmani said, “The Halabja tragedy was really awful. I wanted to have a role in this film and it was so.”

 

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Tehran galleries hold painter Sirak Melkonian’s retrospective

February 3, 2015, 10:36 am

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TEHRAN – Two galleries in Tehran are holding a retrospective of painter Sirak Melkonian in a joint project.

 

A collection of paintings created over the past 70 years by the 85-year-old artist are on display at the Arya and Ab Anbar galleries, the Persian service of ISNA reported on Tuesday.

 

The paintings remind the visitors of the evolution and achievements of Iran’s contemporary paintings over a long period of time.

 

The nature and character of paintings of this type belong to the divine world, art critic Dariush Kiaras wrote in a text about Melkonian’s works.

 

The extraordinary concentration on horizontal lines, replacement of drawings by rough sketches, and highlighting disjointed lines are the significant characteristics of his paintings, he added.

 

Born in 1930 in Arak, Melkonian was the winner of the first prize for the Paris Biennial in 1959 and has held many exhibitions in Iran, France, Canada and the United States.

 

The two exhibitions opened on January 30 and will run until February 19.

 

Arya Gallery is located at 10 Zarrin Alley, off Vali-e Asr Ave. and Ab Anbar Gallery can be found at 2 Roshan Manesh Alley, Khaqani St., off Enqelab Ave.

 

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Fajr festival highlights three decades of Iranian illustration art

February 3, 2015, 10:38 am

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TEHRAN -- The 7th Fajr International Festival of Visual Arts opened on Tuesday with a variety of exhibitions, highlighting three decades of Iranian illustration art.

 

Organized by the Association of Iranian Illustrators, a selection of works by over 80 veteran illustrators are on show at Tehran’s Saba Art and Cultural Institute, Persian media reported on Tuesday.

 

Parviz Kalantari, Farshid Mesqali, Gholamali Maktabi, Sadeq Sandoqi, Akbar Nikanpur, Bahram Khaef and Ebrahim Haqiqi are among the illustrators whose works are being exhibited.

 

Artworks in different fields of art including photography, painting, calligraphy, poster and cartoon are on display during the festival.

 

The Palestine Museum of Contemporary Art is hosting photos of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Over 20 photos by Kaveh Golestan, Abdolhossein Partovi, Mohammad Sayyad and several others are on show in the museum.

 

A group of veteran and novice graphic designers are also hanging their works in an exhibit at the Saba Institute. 

 

Moreover, exhibitions of calligraphy, calligraphic painting, earthenware and ceramic works have been arranged during the festival, which will be running until March 3.

 

In addition, the Iranian Artists Forum and Niavaran Cultural Center are hosting the side section programs of the festival.

 

“Messenger of Kindness”, “World against Violence” and “Islamic Revolution Artworks” are the themes of this edition of the festival.

 

 

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Egyptian students and teachers of Persian language visit Iranian center

February 2, 2015, 10:28 am

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TEHRAN – A number of Egyptian students of the Persian language along with their teachers visited the Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia (CGIE) in Tehran on Sunday.

 

The group coming from different universities in Egypt including Cairo University, Al-Azhar University, and Ain Shams University are visiting Iran at the invitation of Iran’s Sadi Foundation, the Persian service of MNA reported on Monday.

 

“The guests have participated in their daily Persian language classes every morning, and have visited several cultural centers and universities across the city in the afternoons during their 12-day visit,” CGIE Literature Department Director Mehran Afshari said.

 

“Their trip will come to an end tomorrow and I hope they have been able to find good Persian language sources in here,” he said.

 

Persian language and literate is popular in Egypt and several universities across the country are teaching the Persian language, he added.

 

“We are hoping that cultural relations between Iran and Egypt develop and student exchange between the two countries commences again,” he stated.

 

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Iranian troupes win awards at Fajr Intl. Theater Festival

February 2, 2015, 10:31 am

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TEHRAN – Iranian troupes have won all awards in the national and international sections of the 33rd Fajr International Fajr Festival.

 

The winners were announced during the closing ceremony of the festival at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on Sunday.

 

The award for best director in the international section went to Mohammad Mosavat for his play “Fa.Mi.Ly”.

 

Mahin Sadri was picked as the best dramatist in this section for “Fellowship”, and Elham Korda and Setareh Eskandari shared the best actress award for their roles in the play, which was directed by Afsaneh Mahian.

 

The special jury award was presented to director Iman Eskandari for “The Man Outside”. He also won the best stage designing award for the play. 

 

Khosro Shahraz won the best actor award for his role in “Oliver Twist”, which was directed by Asghar Khalili, and Tumaj Danesh-Behzadi received the best actress award for “The Man Outside”.

 

Bahar Ilchi won the best music award for her composition for “Wow” directed by Tinu Salehi.

 

In the national section, the awards for best director and best playwright went to Kheirollah Taqianipur for “Turkey”.

 

The 33rd Fajr International Theater Festival was held in Tehran from January 21 to February 1.

 

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Art news in brief

February 3, 2015, 10:22 am

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Russian muftis visit Iran

TEHRAN- A group of 23 Russian muftis arrived in Iran on Monday to visit with Iranian officials and ulama.

 

On the first part of their itinerary, the group met the director of the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO), Abuzar Ebrahimi Torkaman on Tuesday.

 

The delegation led by the director of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims in Rostov region, Mufti Jafar Bikmayev, has been invited to Iran by the ICRO.

 

 

Loehlin’s biography of Chekhov published in Persian

TEHRAN - A Persian translation of U.S. author James N. Loehlin’s “The Cambridge Introduction to Chekhov” has recently been published in Iran.

 

The book highlighting the life story of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov was translated by Ali Akbar Pishdasti.

 

The book was originally published by the Cambridge University Press in 2010 and the Persian version was published by the Qoqnus Company.

 

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Fajr festival highlights three decades of Iranian illustration art

February 3, 2015, 10:38 am

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TEHRAN -- The 7th Fajr International Festival of Visual Arts opened on Tuesday with a variety of exhibitions, highlighting three decades of Iranian illustration art.

 

Organized by the Association of Iranian Illustrators, a selection of works by over 80 veteran illustrators are on show at Tehran’s Saba Art and Cultural Institute, Persian media reported on Tuesday.

 

Parviz Kalantari, Farshid Mesqali, Gholamali Maktabi, Sadeq Sandoqi, Akbar Nikanpur, Bahram Khaef and Ebrahim Haqiqi are among the illustrators whose works are being exhibited.

 

Artworks in different fields of art including photography, painting, calligraphy, poster and cartoon are on display during the festival.

 

The Palestine Museum of Contemporary Art is hosting photos of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Over 20 photos by Kaveh Golestan, Abdolhossein Partovi, Mohammad Sayyad and several others are on show in the museum.

 

A group of veteran and novice graphic designers are also hanging their works in an exhibit at the Saba Institute. 

 

Moreover, exhibitions of calligraphy, calligraphic painting, earthenware and ceramic works have been arranged during the festival, which will be running until March 3.

 

In addition, the Iranian Artists Forum and Niavaran Cultural Center are hosting the side section programs of the festival.

 

“Messenger of Kindness”, “World against Violence” and “Islamic Revolution Artworks” are the themes of this edition of the festival.

 

 

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Tehran galleries hold painter Sirak Melkonian’s retrospective

February 3, 2015, 10:36 am

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TEHRAN – Two galleries in Tehran are holding a retrospective of painter Sirak Melkonian in a joint project.

 

A collection of paintings created over the past 70 years by the 85-year-old artist are on display at the Arya and Ab Anbar galleries, the Persian service of ISNA reported on Tuesday.

 

The paintings remind the visitors of the evolution and achievements of Iran’s contemporary paintings over a long period of time.

 

The nature and character of paintings of this type belong to the divine world, art critic Dariush Kiaras wrote in a text about Melkonian’s works.

 

The extraordinary concentration on horizontal lines, replacement of drawings by rough sketches, and highlighting disjointed lines are the significant characteristics of his paintings, he added.

 

Born in 1930 in Arak, Melkonian was the winner of the first prize for the Paris Biennial in 1959 and has held many exhibitions in Iran, France, Canada and the United States.

 

The two exhibitions opened on January 30 and will run until February 19.

 

Arya Gallery is located at 10 Zarrin Alley, off Vali-e Asr Ave. and Ab Anbar Gallery can be found at 2 Roshan Manesh Alley, Khaqani St., off Enqelab Ave.

 

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Kurdish director’s debut film chronicles love story in Halabja tragedy

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TEHRAN -- Iranian Kurdish director Ahmad Ramezanzadeh’s debut film, “The Story of Love”, tells a tale of love set in the aftermath of the Iraqi chemical weapons attack on the Kurdish city of Halabja in 1988.

 

The film is competing in the New Vision section, which screens works from first-time filmmakers, at the 33rd Fajr Film Festival that is underway in the Tehran. 

 

The movie is based on a real-life story about an Iranian photographer who arrived in Halabja a few hours after the chemical weapons attack. He met a woman while he was trying to help the victims of the attack.   

 

“I was born in Kurdistan,” Ramezanzadeh said in a review session held after the screening of the film on Monday.

 

“I have had the tragedy of Halabja in mind for years. I began writing the screenplay for the film in 2009 and spent three years making the film,” he said.

 

“The people of Halabja took refuge across the borders in Iran despite the fact that they had Iraqi nationality. Our people warmly welcomed them. This humanitarian issue is worthy of being highlighted in a movie,” he added.

 

The film’s stars Bahram Radan and Kurdish actress Shilan Rahmani also attended the review session, which was held at Milad Tower.

 

Radan said that the film gave him the opportunity to appear once again in a movie on the theme of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.

 

He previously played the role of a war veteran in director Rakhshan Bani-Etemad’s “Gilaneh”. 

 

Rahmani said, “The Halabja tragedy was really awful. I wanted to have a role in this film and it was so.”

 

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“Zoroaster in History” published in Persian

TEHRAN - A Persian translation of “Zoroaster in History” written by Italian scholar and Iranologist Gherardo Gnoli has recently been published in Iran.

 

The book, which was originally published by the Bibliotheca Persica Press in 2000, details the life story of Zoroaster, the founder of Zoroastrianism.

 

“Zoroaster in History” has been translated into Persian by Mahdieh Cheraghian, and published by Parseh Books.

 

 

“Respected Sir” appears in Persian

TEHRAN – A Persian translation of Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz’ novel “Respected Sir” has been published by Parseh Books in Tehran.

 

Translated by Karim Purzobeid, the book is a satiric portrait of an aspiring government employee, Othman Bayyumi.

 

Born in 1911, Mahfouz was a prolific writer who was awarded a Nobel Prize in literature in 1988.

 

Iranian, Tunisian national libraries sign MOU

TEHRAN – A memorandum of understanding (MOU) has been signed between the National Library and Archives of Iran (NLAI) and the National Library of Tunisia.

 

The MOU was inked in Tunis during a meeting between NLAI Deputy Director Gholamreza Amirkhani and National Library of Tunisia Director Mohamed Kamel Eddine Gaha, IRNA reported on Wednesday.

 

Plans to organize workshops, educational courses and book fairs have been discussed in the MOU.

 

Based on the MOU, the libraries will also conduct joint research projects and exchange information and experts.

 

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Book on Iranian poet Mehdi Akhavan-Saless published in New Delhi

February 4, 2015, 1:15 pm

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A book on Mehdi Akhavan-Saless (1929-1990), one of the pioneers of blank verse in Persian literature, has been published in Persian in New Delhi.

 

Entitled “The Position of Mehdi Akhavan-Saless in Contemporary Persian Epic Poetry”, the book was authored by Atiqur Rahman, the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization announced in a press release on Wednesday. 

 

Rahman is the director of the Department of Arabic, Persian, Urdu and Islamic Studies at Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan, West Bengal.

 

The New Delhi-based Educational Publishing House is the publisher of the book.

 

Akhavan-Saless, who also was a musicologist, was well acquainted with Persian classical poetry. However, he focused on free verse poetry.

 

He composed over twenty books including “Arghanun” and “Winter”. 

 

He taught Persian literature at the University of Tehran and several other academic centers, and was sentenced to several years in prison and exile for his political activities during the reign of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

 

Akhavan-Saless died at 62 and was buried in Tus beside the tomb of Ferdowsi, the poet of the Persian epic masterpiece the Shahnameh. 

 

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