Book and reading in Iran are facing multiple crises because, on one hand, they are inheriting global problems such as the decline of the book market due to the emergence of powerful competitors like cinema, television, virtual space, and various computer games, as well as new media such as audio works, and on the other […]...

Yesterday, a coincidence (or as it is called in Persian, “tavard”) happened. A friend asked me about a book by Franz Fanon and which translation of Fanon’s books is better. I replied that I haven’t read any of Fanon’s works because the anti-Western ideologies of Fanon and his nationalist supporters, such as Ali Shariati and […]...

One of the challenges for Iranians is that, aside from the flaws and weaknesses of the Islamic Republic’s constitution, the government is not even loyal to its own laws and does not act upon them. We have seen numerous times that the rulers of the Islamic Republic, or their supporters and followers, use the cliché […]...

A few notes about protest literature in Iran. When discussing “protest literature,” some may think that our understanding of this concept is synonymous or closely related to “commitment in literature” or, in another reading, “committed literature”; an understanding that itself has a “leftist” color and smell. Although “leftist literature” is also an example of this […]...

Today, as I reached out to write a note about the neglected issue of mental health and human rights for people to live in peace and tranquility, I was met with the heartbreaking news of a young filmmaker’s murder by his own father, with the help of his mother, as a witness to the unseen. […]...

World literature and the phenomenon of suicide. Literature has always been filled with death, and even filled with suicides of fictional characters. Which one of us, as readers, has not witnessed the forced exit of literary heroes in the pages of novels; from Shakespeare’s characters to the multitude of characters in Dostoevsky’s novels, from Goethe’s […]...

This is not a complete sentence and therefore cannot be accurately translated. Please provide a complete sentence for translation. Reza Najafi A brief history of the Tehran International Book Fair. The Tehran International Book Fair is one of the most important cultural events in our country, which is held every year in mid-Ordibehesht (May). It […]...

A commentary on the phenomenon of destruction of graves in Iran. “بهترین راه برای پیشرفت، شروع کردن است.” “The best way to progress is to start.” Reza Najafi Heinrich Heine, a German political poet who lived in exile, wrote a poem in 1820: “Where they burn books, they will also burn humans sooner or later.” […]...

This is a picture of a beautiful flower. Reza Najafi The 30th Tehran International Book Fair was held from the 13th to the 23rd of Ordibehesht this year at a location known as “City of Sun” with the slogan “Let’s Read One More Book”. In this fair, 2,782 domestic and foreign publishers displayed their books […]...

This is a caption This is a caption Reza Najafi Even during Book Week and reading, we cannot forget the crisis that exists in this field. The difficulties of books and reading in Iran are not a hidden matter that needs to be proven, but what can be addressed are the roots of these difficulties […]...