Iran Book News Agency (IBNA)

Seyyed Sadegh Rezaee

The managing director of The Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults:

The new managing director of The Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (Kannon Parvaresh Fekri) referred to the results of the Funniest Kannon Book festival and said: Kannon supports humor books and their writers. In the concluding ceremony of this award three writers were praised: Shahram Shafaee, Seyyed Saeed Hashemi and Ahmad Arablou.

Praiseworthy works of fall 2009 announced Secretariat of the 11th Book of the Season Award released the list of praiseworthy works. The winners were praised last night (March 9, 2010).		FM insists on necessity of Asian Research Centers' cooperation “Iran under the Safavids” reaches 18th print run 100 memories of "The Women of Khoramshahr" reaches 3rd print run 10 Iranian children's books travel to Turkey Buses house to libraries

	Discussed in the meeting for promoting reading in the country Ministry of Culture is not the sole responsible official	11 Mar 2010 15:57
	The meeting for promoting reading and organizing the publication process was held by the cultural secretary of Tehran 11th district municipality this morning March 10.
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	"A work's author is not its sole owner"

	Rumi story related in Stockholm	11 Mar 2010 13:46
	Iranian storyteller narrated Rumis' Pirchangi story in Sweden during the Iranian-Swedish children's friendship week.
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	"Satan's hand" in Iran

	Google, Italy agree massive book scanning project	11 Mar 2010 13:25
	Google said Wednesday it had reached agreement with the Italian culture ministry to scan up to a million books housed in the national libraries of Rome and Florence.
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	Sparkes wins Blue Peter Prize

	Launching 30 rural libraries in Tabriz	11 Mar 2010 13:04
	Public libraries’ institution has planned to launch 30 rural libraries in Tabriz till the end of 1393 (2015).
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	More than 4 million books dedicated to public libraries

	Informing and librarianship manager of Book House Institution announced Gathering information of 12 guilds of print field in 88 print reference	11 Mar 2010 12:38
	Informing and librarianship manager of Book House and the attendant of publishing “print reference” and “print report card”of 1388 (2009-2010), Daroush Motalebi announced that these two works will be available in Tehran International Book Fair and said :”information of 12 guilds of print field has been gathered in the reference.”
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	Ways to build Print and publication towns to be discussed

	In the near future IBNA to deal with Sacred Defense Reporters Community	10 Mar 2010 17:08
	Public relations and advertisement deputy of the Foundation of Preservation and Publication of Sacred Defense Relics said the Sacred Defense Reporters Community and Iran Book News Agency (IBNA) will sign a cooperation agreement.
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	Mostafa Omidi: No official objection to Fajr Poetry Festival’s judging	10 Mar 2010 15:26
	The executive secretary of the 4th Fajr Poetry Festival said: So far we have received no official objection to the judging of the Festival’s awards. The poets who have objections can send their written claim to the secretariat of the award by the beginning of spring.
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	Novel of former Taoiseach's daughter in Iran	10 Mar 2010 14:45
	"A Place Called Here" a novel by Irish writer Cecelia Ahern has been published in Iran. She is the daughter of former Taoiseach.
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	General manger of Ferdowsi Foundation Celebrating Shahnameh's millennium, a longtime wish	10 Mar 2010 13:49
	On the occasion of registering "Shahnameh's millennium" on UNESCO’s calendar of events for 2010, ceremonies will be held to mark the millennium of the creation of ‘Shahnameh’ (Book of Kings), a magnum opus by the renowned classical Persian poet Abolqasem Ferdowsi.
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	In Pictures Closing ceremony of Book of the Season Award	10 Mar 2010 13:46

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	Ali Akbar Ashari stressed: Formation of Sub-regional Memory of the World Committee	10 Mar 2010 13:15
	The second day of the Regional Asia Pacific Committee summit was held yesterday in the presence of a number of officials of the Memory of the World Program in Macao.
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	In the house of literati Book of the Season Award wraps up	10 Mar 2010 12:47
	Closing ceremony of the 11th Book of the Season Award was held Tuesday (10 March) evening in the House of Literati where selected authors of praiseworthy works received their awards as well. Some 4152 works were assessed in the edition of which 14 were selected; 6 compilations and 8 translations.
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	Aim of Libraries' Foundation: Making Iranian Libraries top libraries in the region	9 Mar 2010 17:22
	The developments deputy of the Foundation of Public Libraries said the main goal of the Foundation's strategic plan is to make Iranian libraries the top libraries in the region.
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	A new novel by Ghobad Azar Aeen: "Catch the scorpions alive"; the narration of southern nostalgia	9 Mar 2010 17:06
	Ghobad Azar Aeen, the winner of Book of the Season Award for "The invasion of sunshine", has recently submitted his new work, a novel, to the publisher. According to him, the novel has a nostalgic atmosphere that reflects the events happened during his childhood and teen years in Khuzistan.
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	De Zayas Book on Legal Aspects of Genocide Published by Haigazian University	9 Mar 2010 16:33
	Dr. Alfred de Zayas is a renowned legal expert and professor of international law at the Geneva School of Diplomacy in Switzerland. He has served as a senior lawyer in the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and as secretary of the Human Rights Committee.
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	Jay Taylor wins Gelber prize

	"Satan's hand" in Iran	9 Mar 2010 15:00
	"Satan's hand" a story collection by Afghan poet and author, Aziz Ullah Nahofteh will be published by Afraz in Iran with an aim to release Afghan authors' works. The book is released in Iran for the first time.
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	Rumi story related in Stockholm

	Guidance Minister: Iran ready to hold Persian courses in Qatar	9 Mar 2010 13:51
	Islamic Guidance and Culture Minister met Qatar's new ambassador to Iran, Ebrahim Ibn Abdul-rahman Al-Moghsib, pointing out to Qatar's peoples' eagerness to learn Persian the minister said that Iran is ready to hold Persian courses in Qatar's Universities.
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	Iran, regional pole of Memory of the World Program	9 Mar 2010 13:45
	The 4th biennial summit of the Memory of the World Program regional Asia-Pacific committee was held today (March 8, 2010) in Macao in the presence of Iran's cultural presidential advisor and head of the Organization of Document and National Library of Iran.
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	1st confrence of "Sepah cultural elites" held Commander Safavi honored for penning "Islamic world's unity"	9 Mar 2010 12:05
	Commander Yahya Rahim Safavi was honored in the 1st conference of "Sepah cultural elites" for authoring "Islamic world's unity; a future perspective". Praising 350 Sepah's cultural elites were among the other programs.
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	09.03.10	9 Mar 2010 11:33
	Here are the latest cultural headlines in the media.
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Rigi jangles humanity's nerves

When I was flipping through Tasouki (memoirs of a hostage) by Reza Lakzaei, I had this strange feeling: hatred of an animal in human form who dared to exert such villainy.

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Heritage of resistance in bulwarks

Maryam Moghimi - We can find a trace of love in Iran’s resistance against Iraq during the war, a trace of love, sacrifice, devotion and fidelity. From south’s burning bulwarks till the frozen strongholds of the west, Iranian soldiers and youths agreed ...

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10.03.10

Here are the latest cultural headlines in the media.

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Select works of 11th Book of the Season Award

Secretariat of 11th Book of the Season Award announced the edition's selected works. The laureates will receive their awards today evening in the House of Literati. Autumn authored works competed in this edition.

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Mathnavi Manavi, is the melodic interpretations of Molana

In the meeting "The reflection of Quran in the ideas of Molavi", researcher and writer of "Moshef Khamushan", Dr Kazem Mohammadi Vayeghani, said: Molavi is the representative of Islamic mysticism and Mathnavi Manavi is the melodic representation of his ...

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Sarshar calls for audio Da

In the unveiling ceremony of the 100th impression of Da, Mohammad Reza Sarshar said "given the book's dramatization on radio, it can be published as an audio book as well for those who may not stand up to reading such a tome."

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Kindi; the forerunner of writing Islamic philosophical works

In the meeting "Kindi's place in Islamic philosophy", Dr Yousef Sani, the translator of Kindi's philosophical pamphlets, considered him the first muslim philosopher and writer of philosophical works. He said: His pamphlets are the foundations for the ...

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Management books need indigenization

The writer of "Advanced organizational behavior management" said most of the management books in Iranian market are not in accordance with Iranian culture and values. He said: This is why un-indigenized methods of management are failing on our country's ...

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The poetry of Khayyam made me interested in learning Persian

A number of the awarded authors of the 17th international Book of the Year Award visited Ibna last week. In this visit Egyptian writer "Dr Mahmoud Abdolkarim Ali" said reading Khayyam's poetry made him interested in learning the Persian language.

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Support for Guardian writers' publication and selling their works

The cultural secretariat of Sepah Pasdaran said: The Guardian writers (Pasdar writers) will receive support from Sepah Pasdaran in publishing their works. Sepah will also buy a number of their books.

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Honoring Mohsen Chini-forooshan's 18-years efforts

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First conference of "Sepah cultural elites"

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