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Anahita: Ancient Persian Goddess and Zoroastrian Yazata
This book is the most extensive study of the figure of Anahita in recent years, and includes new and never published before research. Anahita: Ancient Persian Goddess and Zoroastrian Yazata is essential reading for all those interested not just in this Goddess and her history, but also all those interested in Persian and Middle Eastern history. - 3/21/13
The sheikh and I: Ghostwriting for a crown prince in exile
THE LAST I HEARD, the Sheikh was under house arrest, and his security guy was in jail. This was not the way it was supposed to turn out. The Sheikh's idea was for it to end in triumph, with his grand return to the royal palace, flags waving, trumpets blaring, the masses applauding; new alliances with the West -LA Review of Books - 3/6/13
"The Persian Square" by Iran Davar Ardalan now available on iPad
Rich with evocative images and vignettes, The Persian Square spans the extraordinary range of Iranian-American self expression, chronicling the myriad and indelible contributions Iranian emigres have made over their decades, fashioning American lives out of Persian identity and traditions. - 3/5/13
Hakim (Physician-Philosopher) Razi - A book by Parviz Azkaei
Zakaria Razi (865-925), the musician, alchemist and the father of modern chemistry, the philosopher and physician is the reviver of ancient Iranian world-views after the advent of Islam. For this reason, Parviz Azkaei's great comprehensive work on Razi's life, covering the history and socio-political conditions of his time as well was The Book that as an Iranian, I was craving for all my life. -Roya Monajem - 3/1/13
Tremors: New Fiction by Iranian American Writers
This groundbreaking anthology brings together twenty-seven authors from a wide range of experiences that offer new perspectives on the Iranian American story. The authors in Tremors represent the maturing voice of Iranian American fiction from the vantage point of those who were born and raised in Iran, as well as those writers who reflect a more distant, but still important, connection to their Iranian heritage. - 2/26/13
Book: Night Letter
Anahita, a nomadic weaver living in early 20th-century Iran, is kidnapped on the eve of her wedding and thrown into the world of slavery and the mystical Sufi faith. Tinged with the fairytale quality of her award-winning Anahita's Woven Riddle, Sayres weaves details of Persian culture with poetry to create the story of a damsel in distress determined to save herself. - 2/25/13
Lecture at UCLA - Molla Nasreddin: Embrace Your Antithesis
Slavs and Tatars are proud to present "Molla Nasreddin: the magazine that would've, could've, should've," a selection of the best caricatures and illustrations from the legendary Azerbaijani periodical, arguably the most important Muslim satirical political magazine of the 20th century. - 2/3/13
Good Things ...
According to the unofficial "rule of three" in media many stories, from comic strips to dramatic epics, are structured in threes. Blockbuster movies spawn sequels and prequels. - 1/28/13
Novel: The Man Who Fooled SAVAK
Douglas Roberts in his debut novel, The Man Who Fooled SAVAK, weaves an engaging tale of love, romance and suspense around true events that are even more relevant today as they were 40 years ago in Tehran. When the ebook version was released, the Arab spring had not yet happened. - 1/25/13
Ferdowsi's Legacy: Examining Persian Nationalist Myths of the Shahnameh
The Shahnameh, completed by Hakim Abul-Qasim Ferdowsi in 1010 CE, is the undisputable national epic poem of the pan-Persian-speaking world. Composed of nearly 60,000 couplets, its narrative covers Creation to the Islamic conquest of Greater Iran (Iran Zamin) in the 7th century. -Ajam - 1/22/13
Cafe Tehroon organizes Literary Tour for Tehran citizens
Cafe Tehroon, a Persian website which organizes cultural tours in Tehran, has arranged a half-day tour for December 27 to familiarize visitors with some literary figures of the city. - 12/23/12
Iran: 5000 Years of Clothing, Jewellery and Cosmetics
This book is the first in the Culture of Iran Series intended for general public and the first of it's kind to cover the history of clothing, jewellery and cosmetics in Iran from 3000 BCE to the present time with high quality images. - 12/11/12
Modern Iran: A Pictorial history for Young Readers
Modern Iran the third book in the Culture of Iran Youth series covers life in Iran from the 18th century to the present time. It starts with the Qajar dynasty, their attempt to modernize the country and their contributions to the visual and performing arts in Iran. - 11/12/12
Medieval Iran: A Pictorial history for Young Readers
Medieval Iran traces life after the Arab Muslim invasion in the 7th century.It follows the changes in cultural and religious life, the rise of independent Iranian dynasties and the defeat of Arab caliphate by the 10th century. - 11/2/12
Book: The Great Famine and Genocide in Persia, 1917-1919
As many as eight to ten million Persians perished because of starvation and disease during the famine of 1917-1919, making it the greatest calamity in Persia's history. In this book, Mohammad Gholi Majd argues that Persia was the greatest victim of World War One and also the victim of possibly the worst genocide of the twentieth century. - 10/26/12
Amir Hassan Cheheltan's "Tehran, Skyless City": Reflecting the Dark Side of Iran's Capital
In "Tehran, Skyless City", Amir Hassan Cheheltan describes the journey through life of an underdog who arrives in Tehran as an uprooted, orphaned inmate of a home and with a high degree of criminal energy, rises through the ranks to become the director of a torture prison. A review by Volker Kaminski -qantara.de - 10/23/12
Nine Rubies: Hidden Stories of a woman's life in Iran revealed through unique bond of trust between two American moms
In 1990 two mothers sat in a modest Connecticut kitchen enjoying a spring day and the usual conversation of getting to know someone new. It turned out out that their common passions of family, children, gardening and heritage would become the pathway by which Mahru would start to share personal stories that bespoke the gulf between rich and poor, the plight of women, personal struggle and self-determination. - 10/14/12
Tehran to host festival on Rumi today
"Rumi can be considered as the symbol of the ECO's unity. He is a connecting link among the ECO members, because Iran, Turkey, Tajikistan and Afghanistan claim that he belongs to their cultures and civilizations" - 9/27/12
Solacers (An Iranian Story): One of Three Best Nonfiction for 2012, Stanford University
Solacers tells the touching story of a 5-year old child's search for family life and safety following the divorce of his parents in Iran during the 1960's. The first child of a heartless father and a discarded mother is left to fend for himself on the streets of Mashhad, seeking food and shelter wherever he can. - 9/26/12
Gurdjieff's Beelzebub' Tales to His Grandson - Part Two: The Question of Gender
Faith of consciousness is freedom/Faith of feeling is weakness/Faith of body is stupidity/Love of consciousness evokes the same in response/Love of feeling evokes the opposite/Love of body depends only on type and polarity/Hope of consciousness is strength/Hope of feeling is slavery/Hope of body is disease -Roya Monajem, Tehran - 9/21/12
Gurdjieff's Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: Part One: The Question of Organization
'The-very-greatest-happiness-consists-in-obtaining-the-pleasurable-with-the-profitable.' -Roya Monajem, Tehran - 8/31/12
Persian translation of "Xerxes" hits Iranian bookstores
A Persian translation of "Xerxes", a book about the king of the Persian Empire, has hit bookstores across the country. Released by Qoqnus Publications, "Xerxes (Ancient World Leaders)" is written by Dennis Abrams and has been rendered into Persian by Sara Hashemi. - 8/23/12
Interview with Professor Ehsan Yarshater, the Founder and Editor of Encyclopedia Iranica
In the second year of my teaching at Columbia University I thought that the time had come to realize one of my oldest dreams: an encyclopedia in English and in adequate details to make Persian culture and history, its languages and its religions known to the civilized world by founding a detailed accurate and totally reliable and impartial encyclopedia. No such work existed. - 8/20/12
Farzaneh Milani Awarded for Book on Iranian Women's Struggle for 'Freedom of Movement'
University of Virginia professor Farzaneh Milani has been recognized with two international awards this summer related to her career and the publication of her most recent book, "Words Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement." -Rob Seal, UVA Today - 8/15/12
Iranian writer Yaghoub Yadali cleared of charges
Yaghoub Yadali, an Iranian writer, finally has been acquitted of charges brought against him based on the content of his stories. Yadali, who was sentenced to one year in jail five years ago, has now been acquitted of all the charges against him by the appellate court - 7/10/12
An Iranian Storyteller's Personal Revolution
After being arrested in 1974 by the Savak, the shah's secret police, the Iranian writer Mahmoud Dowlatabadi asked his interrogators just what crime he had committed. "None," he recalled them responding, "but everyone we arrest seems to have copies of your novels, so that makes you provocative to revolutionaries." -Larry Rohter, NY Times - 7/2/12
Pomegranates and Roses: My Persian Family Recipes
Ariana Bundy's family roots are firmly planted in Persian soil. She inherited her love of food and cooking from her grandparents-merchants and landowners who grew cherries, plums, apricots, apples, sugar beets, wheat, and barley; bred sheep and goats for dairy; and had beautiful vineyards producing prized grapes; and from her father, who owned and ran the first fine-dining French restaurant in Iran. - 6/13/12
With Holocaust book in Farsi, Iranian-American author plugs a historical hole
When he first became interested in learning about the Holocaust in the 1990s, Dr. Ari Babaknia had trouble finding any literature on the subject written in his native tongue, Farsi... So Babaknia, who came to the United States from Iran in 1974, decided to write the book himself, taking time off from his day job as a fertility specialist. -CNN - 6/1/12
Tehran International Book Fair wraps up with six million visitors
The director of the 25th Tehran International Book Fair (TIBF) said on Saturday that about six million people visited the 11-day cultural event. - 5/13/12
An Evening of Persian Poetry in London
Poetry reading and discussion with poets Azita Ghahreman and Reza Mohammadi, and their translators Maura Dooley and Nick Laird, moderated by Julia Bird - 5/9/12
Tehran Book Fair welcomes over 1.2 million visitors in 3 days
Director of the 25th Tehran International Book Fair Bahman Dorri has said that the number of visitors reached over 1.2 million during the past three days of the cultural event. - 5/5/12
Photos: Tehran International Book Fair
The book fair will run until May 12 at Tehran's Imam Khomeini Mosalla. Over 2,400 Iranian publishers and 1600 publishers from 77 countries are offering their products at the fair this year. -Erfan Khoshkhoo - 5/4/12
More than 10 publishers absent from Tehran Book Fair
The 25th annual Tehran Book Fair opened today amid news that several Iranian publishing companies are being prohibited from setting up their usual stalls. - 5/3/12
Tehran Book Fair versus the literature of Iran's streets
Readers walking into the Tehran Book Fair will not find "Memories of My Melancholy Whores" the Gabriel Garcia Marquez book has long been banned. Yet if they can find a street stall, called nayab foreshi (Farsi for "forbidden items"), that book, and others, will be for sale. -LA Times - 5/2/12
Book: Sky of Red Poppies by Zohreh Ghahremani
Sky of Red Poppies begins with a casual friendship between two schoolgirls coming of age in a politically divided 1960's Iran under rule of the Shah. Roya, the daughter of a prominent family, is envious of the fierce independence of her religious classmate Shireen. But Shireen has secrets of her own. - 4/23/12
Saadi, The Eminent Iranian Poet
Iran is planning to mark the national Sa'adi Day paying tribute to the eminent 13th-century Persian poet during a ceremony in the historical city of Shiraz. Many Iranian university professors and scholars are slated to attend the ceremony celebrating the birth anniversary of the world-renowned poet. -Firouzeh Mirrazavi - 4/20/12
A Night with Abbas Maroufi at Stanford University
Monday April 23rd, at 7pm: PSA is very proud to host "A Night with Abbas Maroufi, Author of the Symphony of the Dead". Join us as the renowned Iranian author, Abbas Maroufi, gives a talk about his books and introduces his new works. - 4/19/12
Book: Iran's Epic and America's Empire
Mahmoud Omidsalar's book "Iran's Epic and America's Empire" considers the implications of Iran's national epic, the Shahnameh for the present political tensions that mark Iran's relationship with the West. It offers an explanation of the poem as a national and a cultural icon. - 4/18/12
Grass Responds To His Critics
German poet Gunter Grass has responded to harsh criticism of his recent work that accuses Israel of threatening world peace, saying that although the media has piled up on him, he will not back down from the truth. - 4/7/12
IRANIAN WRITERS UNCENSORED: Freedom, Democracy, and the Word in Contemporary Iran
As poet Mohammad Hoghooghi says, "[Writing] constitutes resistance. Because, in any age, the poet has been a protestor of a kind; resisting the thought-molds of the day. However, this protest might be political, it might be social, or it might even be philosophical. At any rate, the artist is at odds with the prevalent conduct and thinking of his age; this has always been the case." - 4/6/12
"What must be said": Poem about Iran-Israel relation by German poet Grass draws fire
A new poem by Gunter Grass, the prominent German author and 1999 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, has stirred controversy for its portrayal of Israel as threatening world peace with its plots against Iran. - 4/5/12
Photos: Celebrating Norouz with Hafez and Saadi
One of the favorite destinations for Iranians traveling during the Persian New Year Norouz holidays is the tombs of the poets. These photos show the Norouz travelers visiting the tombs of the great Iranian poets Hafez and Saadi in Shiraz, known as the City of Poets, Literature, Wine and Flowers. - 3/28/12
Pomegranates and Roses: A Persian Love Story
Fari Publishing is proud to announce the release of: Pomegranates and Roses: A Persian Love Story, a debut children's book by Farahnaz Amirsoleymani. This is the first time that the Persian folktale of Naneh Sarma (Mother Winter), and Amoo Norooz (Uncle New Years) has been published in English. - 3/28/12
Rumi: The Art of Loving
Coinciding with 2012 Spring Equinox and the Persian New Year (Nowruz), the Rumi Poetry Club has just released a new book, Rumi: The Art of Loving. This book is a new anthology and an original translation of Rumi's poetry. - 3/21/12
Iranian author Simin Daneshvar laid to rest
Eminent Iranian author Simin Daneshvar was laid to rest in the Artists Section of Tehran's Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery on Sunday morning. Literati and cultural figures accompanied Daneshvar to her final resting place during funeral procession that started from the Vahdat Hall. - 3/11/12
The iconic Persian writer Simin Daneshvar Passes Away in Tehran
Simin Daneshwar, of the greatest Persian female writers passes away in Tehran. The most famous work of Daneshvar was the roman "Suvashun" which was translated into 17 languages including English, German and Dutch in 1990s. - 3/9/12
First Professor Aqabozorg Awards: Shahnameh experts honored
The winners of the first edition of the Aqabozorg Awards, which are dedicated to experts on Iranian poet Ferdowsi and his epic masterpiece the Shahnameh (Book of Kings), were announced on Tuesday. - 3/8/12
Lecture and "Persia in Crisis" book signing at the Library of Congress
The decline and fall of Safavid Iran is traditionally seen as the natural outcome of the unrelieved political stagnation and moral degeneration which characterized late Safavid Iran. Persia in Crisis challenges this view. In this ground-breaking new book, Rudi Matthee revisits traditional sources and introduces new ones to take a fresh look at Safavid Iran in the century preceding the fall of Isfahan in 1722, which brought down the dynasty and ushered in a long period of turbulence in Iranian history. - 3/4/12
An review of the book "A Hundred Years Of Film Adverts And Film Posters In Iran"
The main aim of this book is to express the nature of poster and its dual role, both as an object of art in its own right, and as a mean to promote the film and express its theme, and with such a definition the book explores the contribution of posters throughout the history of Iranian cinema. -Kiomars Vejdani - 3/4/12
Prose: More Humans, Less Humanity
In the beginning Nature's Rule of Law,Inspired every creature's awe? Instinct was a basic feature, That was instilled in every creature. -Ali A. Parsa - 3/1/12
Patriot of Persia: Muhammad Mossadegh and a very British Coup - Public Lecture and Book Launch in London
On August 19, 1953, the government of Muhammad Mossadegh, Iran's nationalist prime minister, succumbed to an Anglo-American coup in favour of the Shah. How did this happen? What combination of forces worked against the septuagenarian prime minister as his dream of a truly independent Iran collapsed around him? - 2/6/12
The Immortal Song of Freedom: A book talk at UCLA by Parvaneh Bahar, Author
Ms. Parvaneh Bahar, is an Iranian-American author, human rights activist. She will be speaking on her new book which is about her father, Malek o' Shoara Bahar, one of the most popular and respected poets of modern Iran. - 1/20/12
Ghazal Games: Poems by Roger Sedarat
As an Iranian American poet, Roger Sedarat fuses Western and Eastern traditions to reinvent the classical Persian form of the ghazal. For its humor as well as its spirituality, the poems in this collection can perhaps best be described as "Wallace Stevens meets Rumi." - 1/12/12
Payvand's top 10 popular books for 2011
Payvand.com organizes hundreds of titles in more than 40 categories in its Iranbooks section. Here is a list of top 10 sellers in 2011, reflecting our state of mind. - 1/11/12
A Short Story: That Summer Night in Tehran
The night air is warm. The heat of the day still radiates off of the old taxi's pleather seats, and I am content to slide into its permanently indented cushions and nurse my freshly engorged stomach. The sounds of the city lull me into a limbo between wakefulness and sleep. -Yasi Etemadi - 12/27/11
Publishers express grave concern over Iranians' reluctance to read books
Analysts believe that Iranian people's aversion to book reading points to factors far beyond a lack of an appropriate environment for booksellers. They said that the high cost of living in Iran is the major reason for the unwillingness to purchase and read books in Iran. - 12/27/11
Literary Tranquilizers
To make my efforts (getting our great men known in the world) far reaching I combined the messages of global and Iranian scholars such as Khayyam and the rest in book titled Literary Tranquilizers -Ali Parsa - 12/22/11
Book: On The High Road: The History of Godin Tepe, Iran
The site of Godin Tepe is located in the southeastern corner of the Kangavar valley in central western Iran, at the western end of the Silk Road. "On the High Road" will provide the first major publication of the material remains from Godin. - 12/14/11
Layla Diba's "Turkmen Jewelry" Among New York Times Top Books
The Turkmen people of Central Asia and Iran are revered for their carpets and textiles. Less well known, but equally stunning, is the extraordinary silver jewelry created by Turkmen tribal craftsmen and urban silversmiths throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. - 12/11/11
Top cartoons in the first international Contest about books in Iran
200 works selected from among over 2000 works were put on display in a week-long exhibition. 600 cartoonists from 61 countries had sent their cartoons. - 11/29/11
Simin Behbahani: Iran's Foremost Living Poet
This double CD features 15 of Behbahani's most cherished poems, read in the flowing, even tones of her own voice with instrumental accompaniment and English translations read by Susie Ziai. As one of very few recordings of Behbahani's recitations, this unique compilation will no doubt form a treasured part of many collections. - 11/27/11
Winners of Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Awards honored
Winners of the 4th edition of the Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Awards received their prizes during a ceremony held on Wednesday at the Institute of Cultural and Art Studies that is affiliated with the Academic Center for Education, Culture, and Research (ACECR). - 11/25/11
Lectures at UCLA: Negotiating Identities: Iranian Jews Conversion to Islam and the Baha'i faith
Dr. Mehrdad Amanat, an independent scholar living in Los Angeles, received his M.A in Islamic Studies in 1979 and PhD in history, in 2006, both from the University of California at Los Angeles. He is a regular contributor to the Encyclopedia Iranica. His book, Jewish Identities in Iran: Resistance and Conversion to Islam and the Bahai Faith, is published by I.B.Tauris in 2011. - 10/29/11
Persian Recipes Recall Lost Way of Life
Donia Bijan is an Iranian-American chef who fled Iran with her family during the 1979 revolution. After settling in the United States, Bijan's mother experimented with American cooking but always incorporated familiar Persian flavors, recreating a sense of home for her family. She passed those recipes to her daughter. -Faiza Elmasry - 10/26/11
In Search of Chardin
Danielle Digne's Epic Novel "The Jeweller of Isfahan" offers a Fresh Outlook on Jean Chardin's travels in Safavid Persia. "The Jeweller of Isfahan" is the third novel by French author Danielle Digne which is due for publication soon. -Darius KADIVAR - 9/29/11
Book: The Gaze of the Gazelle -- Memoirs of Arash Hejazi, Witness to Neda's Death
On 20 June 2009, during demonstrations to protest the fraudulent Iranian presidential election, a young girl called Neda was shot to death in the streets of Tehran. Within hours, the video footage of Neda's death, fortuitously captured on a roving camera-phone, had circled the globe. Outside the country, the incident was a nine-day wonder; in Iran it changed the course of politics for a new generation. - 9/15/11
World poets to celebrate National Hafez Day in Shiraz
Poets from different countries will celebrate the closing ceremony of Iran's World and Iranian Poets' Conference at the mausoleum of Hafez, the Hafezieh located in Shiraz. - 9/5/11
Popular Young Iranian Poet Sentenced To Prison
On Tuesday, 16 August, Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court, presided by Judge Pirabbasi, sentenced Hila Sedighi, a young poet whose critical and political poems are admired by many, to 4 months in prison, to be postponed for five years. A day before her court appearance, she wrote on her Facebook page: "Revolutionary Court, I, [my] heart's belief, the Judge, accusations, the onlooking God, and your well-wishing prayers..." - 8/24/11
Iranian Censors' Heavy Hand Falls On A Persian Classic
The Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance decided that some parts of the epic poem "Khosrow and Shirin" by Nezami Ganjavi needed reworking, despite the fact that the book-length masterpiece has been a classic of Iranian literature for 831 years. -Charles Recknagel, RFE - 8/18/11
A Lifetime Quest to Finish a Monumental Encyclopedia of Iran
Ralph Ellison wrote for 40 years without finishing his novel "Juneteenth." Antoni Gaudi labored 43 years on the Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona, but construction continues today. And in the annals of grand quixotica, Ehsan Yarshater also deserves a prominent chapter - NewYorkTimes - 8/13/11
Zahra's Paradise: A graphic novel about the post 2009 election protests in Iran
Set in the aftermath of Iran's fraudulent elections of 2009, Zahra's Paradise is the fictional story of the search for Mehdi, a young protestor who has disappeared in the Islamic Republic's gulags. Mehdi has vanished in an extrajudicial twilight zone where habeas corpus is suspended. -Amir and Khalil - 8/9/11
Abbas Kiarostami shares his views on the Divan of Shams
The multi-talented auteur Abbas Kiarostami says the excerpts he selected from Rumi's Divan of Shams and published in his recent book are like text messages he sends to readers. His book "The Fire" in which Kiarostami gave a rendition of the Divan of Shams was unveiled during a ceremony at Karnameh Publications on Thursday. - 7/22/11
Kamin Mohammadi's top 10 Iranian books
From 10th-century epics to 21st-century graphic novels, the author picks the books that best illuminate a country too little known in the west -Guardian - 7/22/11
Cypress Tree author Kamin Mohammadi revisits her Iranian childhood
When Kamin Mohammadi's family fled their home in Ahvaz during the 1979 Iranian revolution, foremost in the nine-year-old girl's mind was the fate of her pet lamb, Baboo. -National - 7/19/11
Iranian American Author Nominated for One Book, One San Diego Selection
Iranian American Zohreh Ghahremani's Sky of Red Poppies is one of three books currently nominated for One Book, One San Diego. One Book, One San Diego, a partnership between KPBS and the San Diego Public Library, will soon choose between three books that will contend for the public vote to be chosen as the next One Book, One San Diego selection. -Majid Roshanger - 7/15/11
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