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TEHRAN – A foundation for the Persian language was established in Tehran on Sunday, which was Iran’s National Sadi Day.

 

The foundation, which was named after the Persian poet Sadi, is planned to promote Persian language and literature inside and outside the country.

 

Established by Iranian Academy of Persian Language and Literature, the foundation aims to preserve and promote Persian language, foundation director Haddad-Adel said during the opening ceremony of the center.

 

Persian language promotion and teaching it to non-Iranian nations was long carried out by the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO), Haddad Adel said in the opening ceremony, “however, we found out that a more organized structure is needed,” he added.

 

He also said that all the activities of the ICRO and other organizations responsible for the promotion of the Persian language will be submitted to the Sadi Foundation.

 

He also mentioned that the foundation has programs for all countries but it first gives the priority to Persian-speaking countries like Afghanistan and Tajikistan.

 

In the future, the foundation also will have programs for Iranians residing in other countries, he added.  

 

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April 21, 2013, 8:33 am

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TEHRAN -- The Iranian film “The Interpretation of a Dream” directed by Reza Daduii won three awards at DetectiveFEST, the international film festival of detective films and television programs in Moscow.

 

The winners were announced during the closing ceremony of the event on Saturday.

 

Daduii won the special jury prize at the festival, the Persian service of IRNA reported on Sunday.

 

Shahab Hosseini won the best actor award and Hamid Ebrahimi received the best supporting actor award for their roles in the film.

 

The film is about a policeman who faces several problems in his family life. After the murder of his close colleague, he has adventures working on the murder case.

 

The Iranian TV series “The Wall” directed by Sirus Moqaddam and “Desert” by Mehdi Mohammadi and Ali Khazaei also competed in the festival, which was held  from April 17 to 21 in Moscow.

 

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April 20, 2013, 10:02 am

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TEHRAN -- Another Persian translation of the popular novel “Désirée” has recently been published by Ofogh in Tehran.

 

Translated by Keyvan Abidi Ashtiani, the two-volume book is a part of the classic romantic literature of the world that Ofoq plans to publish.

 

Written by the Austrian author Annemarie Selinko, the book is about one of Napoleon’s mistresses and, later, a queen of Sweden, Désirée Clary.

 

The book narrates the tale of Napoleon Bonaparte’s court, which is brought vividly to life through the viewpoint of a merchant’s young daughter from Marseilles who later became Napoleon’s fiancée and eventually rose to become queen of Sweden.

 

A massive international bestseller, the book has been translated into 25 languages, and in 1954 was turned into a movie with Marlon Brando and Jean Simmons.

 

Seyyed Mehdi Alavi, Parviz Shahdi, Homayun Pakravan and other Iranian translators have previously rendered the book into Persian.

 

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Literati to celebrate National Sadi Day

April 20, 2013, 10:04 am

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TEHRAN -- Poet Sadi, the author of the classical Persian masterpieces Gulistan and Bustan, will be commemorated in Iran today, which is National Sadi Day.

 

The Iranian people and literati attend a program arranged for this day at the Fars National Library and Archives in Shiraz, Sadi’s birthplace, which is also home to his tomb.

 

The Center for the Study of Sadi is the organizer of the program entitled “Sadi in Our Times”, center Director Kurosh Kamali Sarvestani said in a press release on Saturday.

 

“The program will focus on Sadi’s influence on our modern literature, culture and ethics,” he added.

 

Scholars and academic figures are scheduled to deliver speeches on various subjects during the program.   

 

Asghar Dadbeh will give a speech on the “Need for Sadi in Our Times” and Amir-Ali Nojumian will present a lecture on “Dialogue Functions of Sadi in Modern Iran”.

 

Some Turkish scholars including Hicabi Kirlangic of Ankara University and Mustafa Cicekler of Istanbul University have been invited to the program.

 

Kirlangic is scheduled to lecture on “Turkish Intellectuals and Sadi” and Cicekler will speak on “The Heirs and Narrators of Sadi’s Knowledge in Turkey”.

 

Kamali Sarvestani said that 287,100 copies of books, which include 167 titles, have been published about Sadi and his works in Iran over the last year.

 

National Sadi Day will also be celebrated in some other Iranian cities.

 

The National Orchestra is planning to perform a concert at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall this evening.

 

Homayun Rahimian will conduct the orchestra and vocalist Mohammad Motamedi will perform some of Sadi’s poems on Prophet Muhammad (S).

 

Sadi (c. 1213-1291) is known for his works the Bustan (The Orchard) and the Gulistan (The Rose Garden), which have been translated into almost every major language.

 

Andre du Ryer was the first European to present Sadi to the West by means of a partial French translation of the Gulistan in 1634. Adam Olearius followed soon with a complete translation of the Bustan and the Gulistan into German in 1654.

 

British orientalists Edward Backhouse Eastwick (1814–1883) Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890) and several other Western translators rendered the Gulistan and the Bustan into English. 

 

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Tehran museum to display Polish posters

April 21, 2013, 8:26 am

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TEHRAN -- A collection of posters created by the Polish graphic designers will go on display during a exhibition, which will open at the Imam Ali (AS) Religious Arts Museum on April 26.  

 

Sixty artworks created by the artists of the Polish School of Posters have been selected for the exhibit, museum director Amir Abdolhosseini said in a press release on Sunday.

 

The art show has been organized with the help of the cultural attaché’s office of Poland in Tehran, he added. 

 

He said that the exhibition may travel to other Iran cities.

 

The exhibition will be curated by Iraj Mirza-Alikhani, a member of the Iranian Graphic Designers Society.

 

Beginning in the 1950s and through the 1980s, the Polish School of Posters combined the aesthetics of painting with the succinctness and simple metaphor of the poster. 

 

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Iranian, Russian film institutes sign MOU

April 21, 2013, 8:33 am

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TEHRAN -- Iran’s Visual Media Institute (VMI) and the Union of Russian Filmmakers (URF) have signed a memorandum of understanding in Moscow on Saturday.

 

The MOU was signed by VMI Director Mohammadreza Abbasian and URF Chairman Nikita Mikhalkov, the Iranian cultural attaché’s office announced in a press release.

 

Based on the MOU the institutions will help with production services and orders development for producers from both countries.

 

In addition, the institutions committed to organize mutual film workshops, screenings, and seminars to provide the necessary atmospheres for filmmakers of the countries to share their knowledge and experience.

 

The MOU will be valid for three years and afterwards it can be extended if both side agree.

 

Abbasian has travelled to Moscow along with an Iranian delegation led by Iran Cinema Organization Director Javad Shamaqdari.

 

The attended a program entitled the Iranian Film Days, which was held at Moscow’s Dom Kino on Saturday and Sunday.

 

“The Third Day” directed by Mohammad-Hossein Latifi, “Hell, Purgatory, Paradise” by Bijan Mirbaqeri, “M for Mother” by Rasul Mollaqolipur, and “The Hidden Sense” by Mostafa Razzaq-Karimi were screened at the event.

 

Members of the films’ casts and crews also attended Q&A sessions during the program.

 

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“Orange Suit” director declares candidacy in city council elections

April 21, 2013, 8:27 am

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TEHRAN -- Dariush Mehrjuii, the director of the environment-themed movie “The Orange Suit”, is preparing to campaign in the upcoming city council elections expected this year in June.

 

He plans to register for the city council elections in Mohammadshahr, a suburb of Karaj, the capital of Alborz Province, the Persian service of ILNA reported on Sunday.

 

Film producer Habibollah Kasesaz, actor Amin Zendegani, former TV anchor Elaheh Rezaii, and singers Mohammadreza Eivazi and Abdolhossein Mokhtabad have previously registered for the city council elections in Tehran.

 

“The artists’ decision to become members of the city council is positive, because they have aesthetic concerns, so they could play a key role in making the cities more beautiful and clean,” Mehrjuii told ILNA.

 

“In all countries, artists try to be involved in making decisions for their cities,” he added.

 

The city council elections will be held on June 14, the same day as the presidential election.

 

Mehrjuii’s “The Orange Suit” (also known as “The Orange Dressed”), which promotes the cleaning of the environment, premiered in April last year.

 

“Since the film is about cleanness, I hope people are convinced to avoid producing garbage and to keep the environment clean,” Mehrjuii said in an interview before the premiere of the film.

 

“In all places, the country enjoys a striking natural beauty, a large part of which has been polluted by garbage,” Mehrjuii lamented.

 

“I also would like ‘The Orange Suit’ to be a warning to officials to keep the environment clean because it is being destroyed,” he stated.

 

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Iran, Armenia to boost cultural relations

April 21, 2013, 8:34 am

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TEHRAN -- Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Mohammad Hosseini and Minister of Culture of the Republic of Armenia Hasmik Poghosyan discussed the expansion of cultural relations during a meeting in Yerevan on Thursday.

 

The ministers signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU), on the basis of which Iran and Armenia will be increasing their collaboration on art, culture and cinema, the Persian service of IRNA reported on Sunday.

 

Hosseini said that Iran is ready to hold courses on the Persian language and cultural festivals across Armenia and added that organizing the programs will help the two nations gain an understanding of each other’s cultures.

 

Armenian Minister of Diaspora Hranush Hakobyan received Hosseini on Friday. In addition, they both discussed the opportunities to broadcast Iranian films on Armenian state television and private channels.

 

Hosseini who arrived in Yerevan on Thursday at the head of the delegation also met Armenian Vice Prime Minister Armen Gevorgyan on Saturday and talked about bilateral relationships.

 

Providing more facilities for Iranian students studying in Armenian universities as well as boosting cultural relations were also discussed in this meeting.

 

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Persian language foundation established in Tehran on Sadi Day

April 21, 2013, 8:34 am

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TEHRAN – A foundation for the Persian language was established in Tehran on Sunday, which was Iran’s National Sadi Day.

 

The foundation, which was named after the Persian poet Sadi, is planned to promote Persian language and literature inside and outside the country.

 

Established by Iranian Academy of Persian Language and Literature, the foundation aims to preserve and promote Persian language, foundation director Haddad-Adel said during the opening ceremony of the center.

 

Persian language promotion and teaching it to non-Iranian nations was long carried out by the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO), Haddad Adel said in the opening ceremony, “however, we found out that a more organized structure is needed,” he added.

 

He also said that all the activities of the ICRO and other organizations responsible for the promotion of the Persian language will be submitted to the Sadi Foundation.

 

He also mentioned that the foundation has programs for all countries but it first gives the priority to Persian-speaking countries like Afghanistan and Tajikistan.

 

In the future, the foundation also will have programs for Iranians residing in other countries, he added.  

 

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Iranian film collects awards at Moscow festival

April 21, 2013, 8:33 am

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TEHRAN -- The Iranian film “The Interpretation of a Dream” directed by Reza Daduii won three awards at DetectiveFEST, the international film festival of detective films and television programs in Moscow.

 

The winners were announced during the closing ceremony of the event on Saturday.

 

Daduii won the special jury prize at the festival, the Persian service of IRNA reported on Sunday.

 

Shahab Hosseini won the best actor award and Hamid Ebrahimi received the best supporting actor award for their roles in the film.

 

The film is about a policeman who faces several problems in his family life. After the murder of his close colleague, he has adventures working on the murder case.

 

The Iranian TV series “The Wall” directed by Sirus Moqaddam and “Desert” by Mehdi Mohammadi and Ali Khazaei also competed in the festival, which was held  from April 17 to 21 in Moscow.

 

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National Library and Archives to safeguard historical Persian carpet patterns

April 22, 2013, 7:36 am

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TEHRAN -- Iran National Library and Archives (INLA) will safeguard the historical Persian carpet patterns, which are held at the Iran Carpet Company.

 

According to an agreement signed between the two institutes, the patterns will be transferred to INLA to protect the copyrights of the artworks, INLA announced in a press release on Sunday.

 

INLA views the patterns as important documents, INLA Director Es’haq Salahi said, and added that they will establish regulations on the use of the patterns.

 

INLA also committed to make the necessary arrangements to get the patterns registered on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register list.

 

A number of countries have produced shoddy carpets by unauthorized use and close imitation of Persian patterns over the past decade.

 

“Carpet companies in India, China, Afghanistan, Turkey, and Pakistan have entered the world market by copying the Persian carpet patterns,” former Iran National Carpet Center director Feisal Mardasi previously said in an interview.

 

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Director withdraws from “Welcome to Tehran” project over official bureaucracy

April 22, 2013, 7:35 am

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TEHRAN -- Director Mehdi Naderi has withdrawn from “Welcome to Tehran” over Iranian cultural officials’ denial to qualify foreign actors for the film project, which was to explore problems tourists face due to Iran sanctions.

 

“I will explain the details about my withdrawal from the project in an open letter I plan to send to the president,” he told the Persian service of FNA on Monday.

 

“I will tell him what became of Mehdi Naderi, who made ‘Farewell Baghdad’, which forced him to pull out of the project that he wanted to make,” he added.

 

“I put considerable effort in the project for four years and I wanted to show the world that the people of Tehran were not those who were shown in ‘Argo’. I wanted to show the streets of my city as they are in the reality not in the way Ben Affleck showed in his film,” he explained.

 

Naderi previously said that two A-list actors from Switzerland were selected for the cast for “Welcome to Tehran”, which is a real-life drama about a European woman and her daughter in Tehran.

 

He also said that the efforts he made to obtain the approval of Iranian officials for the work of the Swiss actors were in vain and the unnecessary bureaucratic hurdles have brought the film project to a halt.

 

The Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance must approve the qualifications of foreign members of a cast who are hired for a film project in Iran.

 

Naderi’s war drama “Farewell Baghdad” represented Iran at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Films category in 2011.

 

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April 23, 2013, 8:21 am

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TEHRAN -- The Iranian documentary “Lion Tomb” is an entry in the competition section of the 13th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film in Edinburgh, Scotland.

 

Directed by Mahvash Sheikholeslami, the doc shows the process of making and installing stone lions on graves and tombstones, a tradition believed to date back to the Elamite period in the late 4th and early 3rd millennia.

 

In Iran, the lion has been a symbol of power and bravery for over 5000 years. The stone lions were placed on the graves of heroes of the Bakhtiari tribes over the centuries. The Bakhtiari live in the provinces of Kohkiluyeh-Boyer Ahmad, Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari, and Lorestan, and some parts of Khuzestan.

 

The “Lion Tomb” specifically follows a man as he makes a new lion tomb stone for his own son, a brave young man.

 

Organized by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain & Ireland (RAI), the festival is held biennially. 

 

This year, it will be running from June 13 to 16 at the National Museum in Edinburgh, in conjunction with the combined anthropology departments of Scotland.

 

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April 23, 2013, 8:43 am

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TEHRAN -- An exhibition of works by Iranian artist Katayun Ruhi is currently underway at the AB Gallery in Zurich, Switzerland.

 

Entitled “Ut Poesis Picture”, the collection is a combination of paintings and Persian calligraphy, bearing pieces of poetry composed by the artist but written backwards.

 

The exhibition, which opened in April 10, will be running until May 17.

 

The artist settled in France in 1984, and opened a studio in Auvers-sur-Oise, a town made famous by the Impressionists. Her paintings are often based on photographs, which she redraws and then inscribes with poems in Persian. 

 

She has previously held exhibitions in other countries.

 

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Geneva theaters screening “It’s a Dream”

April 23, 2013, 8:57 am

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TEHRAN -- Two theaters in Geneva, Switzerland, have screened “It’s a Dream” by Iranian director Mahmud Ghaffari.

 

“Screenings have been in progress at the theaters since four weeks ago and I will try to get the international premiere of the film continued,” Ghaffari told the Persian service of MNA on Tuesday.

 

“Since there is a lack of good conditions for screening cultural and independent films in Iran, I am not insisting on screening the film in the country,” he added.

 

Due to these conditions, he also said that he prefers that his film is released only in Iran’s home video market.

 

“It’s a Dream” is about Roya, a resourceful young woman who is juggling with loans to pay back a large debt.

 

With her gift of gab and her determination to fight her way out, she finds herself at the top of a small ponzi scheme that promises to be lucrative, but very soon the mechanism seizes up and a sense of control gives way to anxiety.

 

The film was shown at the 27th Fribourg International Film Festival in March 2013 and won the Talent Tape Award and the Special Jury Prize of the Swiss festival.

 

It is scheduled to compete in the Edinburgh International Film Festival, which will be held in the capital of Scotland from June 19 to 30.
 

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April 23, 2013, 8:58 am

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TEHRAN -- The Dresden Symphony Orchestra (Dresdner Sinfoniker) is scheduled to perform the Symphony for Palestine by the Iranian composer Kayhan Kalhor together with Palestinian and Azerbaijani soloists in its concert tour in Palestine in May and June.

 

The work is dedicated to Juliano Mer-Khamis, the murdered director of Jenin’s Freedom Theatre, as well as to the eleven-year-old Palestinian boy, Ahmed Khatib, shot dead in 2005 by an Israeli soldier, the German Federal Cultural Foundation, a sponsor of the project, has announced on its website. 

 

Ahmed’s story went around the world, because his parents donated his organs to five Israeli children. 

 

Inspired by these tragic events, Kalhor combined classical Persian melodies and elements of Arabic folk music with the sound of a European string orchestra for the Symphony for Palestine. 

 

The first performance will be held at the Cultural Palace in Ramallah on May 30 and the orchestra will travel to Al-Quds to perform at Al Hakawati Palestinian National Theater on June 1.

 

The final performance will take place at Cinema Jenin in Jenin on June 2. 

 

For many years now, the Dresden Symphony Orchestra has been strongly engaged with contemporary Oriental music and culture, and this ambitious project sees them musically in the role of mediators between Orient and Occident.

 

Andrea Molino is the artistic director the orchestra, which features Mehri Asadullayeva on kamancheh, Kamil Shajrawi on Arabic violin, Nermin Hasanova on qanun, Emil Bishara on oud, and Maen Ghoul on percussion.

 

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Pakistani poet appointed president of ECO Cultural Institute

April 23, 2013, 9:58 am

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TEHRAN -- Pakistan’s award-winning poet, academic and littérateur, Iftikhar Hussain Arif, has been appointed the president of the ECO Cultural Institute (ECI).

 

ECI is the cultural wing of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), which is an intergovernmental regional organization established in 1985 by Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey with the aim of promoting economic, technical, and cultural cooperation among member states.

 

The organization was expanded in 1992, with seven new members, namely Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, joining.

 

ECO Cultural Institute aims at fostering understanding and the preservation of the rich cultural heritage of its members through common projects in the field of the media, literature, art, philosophy, sport and education.

 

Arif took charge of the ECO Cultural Institute from Dr. Hojatollah Ayoubi, who completed his three-year term on April 17, 2013.

 

The 70-year-old has been awarded with Hilal-e-Imtiaz, Sitara-e-Imtiaz and Presidential Pride of Performance, which are the highest literary awards given by the Government of Pakistan.

 

Arif was born in Lucknow, India, in 1943 and lived there until he migrated to Pakistan in 1965. 

 

He is a poet of Urdu. Three of his collections, Mehr-i-Doneem, Harf-i-Baryab and Jahan-e-Maloom have been published in many editions. 

 

The Oxford University Press has published an anthology of Arif’s translated poetry under the title, Written in the Season of Fear. The introduction was written by Harris Khalique, a poet in English, Urdu and Punjabi. 

 

Arif's poetry has been translated into a number of languages, including English, Russian, German, Persian, Hindi and Braj Bhasha.

Iranian artists to deliver speechs at Polish poster exhibit in Tehran

April 24, 2013, 7:52 am

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TEHRAN --- Iranian graphic designer Ebrahim Haqiqi and painters and art critic Aidin Aghdashlu are scheduled to deliver speeches at the opening ceremony of a poster exhibition of a group Polish artists at the Imam Ali (AS) Religious Arts Museum on April 26.  
 

Sixty artworks created by the artists of the Polish School of Posters have been selected for the exhibit, curator Iraj Mirza-Alikhani, a member of the Iranian Graphic Designers Society, said in a press release on Wednesday.

 

“This exhibit works like an educational course for the students of graphic arts, since Polish posters are unique in the world; they are handwritten, with excellent structures and compositions,” he said.

 

The art show has been organized in collaboration with the cultural attaché’s office of Poland in Tehran, and may travel to other Iranian cities.

 

Poster art in Poland has chronicled the nation's social, political and cultural life for more than a century. 

 

Beginning in the 1950s and through the 1980s, the Polish School of Posters combined the aesthetics of painting with the succinctness and simple metaphor of the poster. It developed characteristics such as painterly gesture, linear quality, and vibrant colors, as well as a sense of individual personality, humor, and fantasy. 

 

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Iranian satirist plans to publish his books in Afghanistan

April 24, 2013, 7:51 am

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TEHRAN – The Iranian satirist and poet Shahram Shakiba has announced his plans to publish his books in Afghanistan in the future.

 

“Due to the official restriction on publications in Iran, I prefer to publish my books in Afghanistan,” he told the Persian service of ISNA on Wednesday. 

 

Criticizing the condition of book publishing in Iran, he said, “Under these current conditions, I will no longer publish books in Iran, since none of my books receive permission for publication and I do not publish anything as they wish,” he added. 

 

In Iran, writers must obtain permission from the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance to publish their works.

 

“I prefer to publish my books in Afghanistan, because the status of publishing is better in that country and they are more cultured and friendlier toward books,” he added.

 

Shakiba’s credits include “Last Page” and “Two Eggs in Fog”. 

 

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April 24, 2013, 7:52 am

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TEHRAN – Iranian vocalist Alireza Qorbani and kamancheh virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor will be giving a concert at the Festival 4020 in Linz, Austria on April 27, 2013.

 

Santur virtuoso Ali Bahrami-Fard and percussionist Alireza Mollahosseini will also be accompanying the group, the festival has reported on its website.

 

The festival centers on Persian music this year and several other Iranian musicians are also giving performances during the four-day festival, which opened Wednesday.

 

Moreover, the team will begin their tour across Europe beginning in Belgium in May. 

 

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