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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
Introducing "Arash the Archer" Children's Novel
Arash is a twelve-year-old boy who lives in the city of Ray in ancient Persia. His dream is to shoot an arrow all the way to the Oxus River and mark the border between the rival empires of Persia and Tooran. - 7/15/11
One book is printed annually for every two Iranian children: author
A children's writer has criticized the low number of books printed for Iranian children. "About thirty million children live in Iran while only 15 million books are published in Iran annually, i.e., every two Iranian children have only one new book," Mostafa Rahmandust said. - 7/10/11
What of Persian and the Lingua Franca of the New Century?
In Global Brief magazine's Strategic Futures segment recently published, experts and pundits were asked, what will be the key language(s) of this new century? Opinions were offered on why Chinese, Russian, French, Arabic, and Persian could be the lingua franca of the 21st century. -Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, Huffington Post - 7/8/11
Book: The Cypress Tree: A Love Letter To Iran
The Cypress Tree is Kamin's account of her journey home, to rediscover her Iranian self and to discover for the first time the story of her family: a sprawling clan that sprang from humble roots to bloom during the affluent, Biba-clad 1960s, only to be shaken by the horrors of the Iran-Iraq War and the heartbreak of exile, and toughened by the struggle for democracy that continues today. - 7/4/11
Book: The Education of Women and The Vices of Men - Two Qajar Tracts
At the close of the nineteenth century, modern ideas of democracy and equality were slowly beginning to take hold in Iran. Exposed to European ideas about law, equality, and education, upper- and middle-class men and women increasingly questioned traditional ideas about the role of women and their place in society. - 6/29/11
The Man Who Fooled SAVAK: Debut Novel Shows Strife in Tehran 40 Years Ago Still Exists Today
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 as relevant today as they were 40 years ago in Tehran. - 6/23/11
Book: Iran at War, by Kaveh Farrokh
Kaveh Farrokh is an expert on Persian languages and Iranian history whose new book, Iran at War: 1500-1988, provides a full examination of modern Iranian military history. Iran at War begins where Shadows in the Desert ended, with the Arab conquest of Persia and the rise of Islam in the mid-7th century. - 6/21/11
A blonde in Iran
Two Wings of A Nightingale - Persian Soul, Islamic Heart is a road trip through Iran. Along with the 8000 kilometres plus that I travelled through the country before I wrote the book, it's felt like I've trudged another few thousand kilometres to see the manuscript transformed into a book that's actually now for sale! - 6/18/11
For Alexendra Monir, Book is Just the Beginning
Talent runs deep in 25-year-old Iranian-American Alexandra Monir's family. Given that her grandmother is the late Persian folk and opera singer Monir Vakili, it is perhaps not surprising that she has already released her first, much lauded novel Timeless. - Kia Makarechi, PAAIA - 6/11/11
Book: Saved by Beauty: Adventures of an American Romantic in Iran
Whenever I think of the color blue, I think first, not of the sea or the sky, but of a dome. A dome in Isfahan, Iran. It lodged itself in my mind some thirty five years ago, one gray afternoon in the British Library, that beautiful building, itself a dome, which at the time housed a few million books and manuscripts on every subject known to man. -Roger Housden - 6/6/11
Book: Marriage on the Street Corners of Tehran
This insightful novel, by Nadia Shahram, is the compelling and moving account of the struggles of an ambitious but innocent young woman caught in the practice of temporary marriage - a form of religiously and culturally sanctioned prostitution justified by a misinterpretation of the Quran. - 5/22/11
Publishers rack up about $150 million in sales in Tehran International Book Fair
Publishers racked up about 1,750 billion rials (about $150 million) in sales in Tehran International Book Fair this year, up from 1,400 billion rials (about $119million) last year, announced the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance on Tuesday. - 5/18/11
Tehran fair still a ray of hope for book lovers
As the major event in the book sector in Iran, the Tehran International Book Fair (TIBF) is a 10-day opportunity for many Iranians to enjoy browsing among books. - 5/14/11
Iranian Ministry Bans Books From International Fair
Many books previously approved by Iran's Culture and Islamic Guidance Ministry have been banned from the international book fair in Tehran. Tehran's International Book Fair is held annually in May and is considered an important cultural event in the country. - 5/13/11
Celebration of Simin Daneshvar
Simin Daneshvar, novelist, scholar, and literary critic, who wrote Sovashoun, the first modern novel written by an Iranian women, turns 90 this year. She was born in April 28, 1921, in the city of Shiraz. - 5/2/11
Book: The Colonel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
A pitch black, rainy night in a small Iranian town. Inside his house the Colonel is immersed in thought. Memories are storming in. Memories of his wife. Memories of the great patriots of the past, all of them assassinated or executed. Memories of his children, who had joined the different factions of the 1979 revolution. - 5/2/11
Iranian author Houshang Asadi receives 2011 International Human Rights Award
The 2011 International Human Rights Award has been awarded to HOUSHANG ASADI for his remarkable memoir. LETTERS TO MY TORTURER details the events following the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Houshang Asadi recounts in horrific yet gripping detail, the reality of life as a prisoner in one of the most hostile prisons in Iran - and probably the world. - 4/28/11
Omar Khayyam's Statue to be installed at Madrid University
Madrid University is due to unveil a statue of the celebrated Persian philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, and above all poet, Omar Khayyam, in a ceremony on May 18. Spain's Complutense University is set to unveil a statue of Omar Khayyam in an effort to honor the world-renowned Persian polymath and poet. - 4/26/11
Happy Saadi Day!
I happened to spend the night in a garden with one of my friends and we found it to be a pleasant cheerful place with heart-ravishing entangled trees; its ground seemed to be paved with small glass beads whilst, from its vines, bunches like the Pleiades were suspended... - 4/21/11
Attar tomb adorned with flowers
An annual ritual, the mausoleum of the Persian classical poet Farid ud-Din Attar (c. 1145-1221) in Neyshabur was adorned with flowers during a ceremony on April 14. - 4/15/11
Happy Attar Day
Throngs of people will rendezvous at the tomb of Farid ud-Din Mohammad ibn Ebrahim Attar (c. 1142-1220) in Neyshabur tomorrow to commemorate the Persian poet and mystic once again. - 4/13/11
Sedagh Hedayat - Sixty years on
On 4th April 1951, just sixty years ago, Sadegh Hedayat, Iran's most famous writers of short stories turned on the gas and ended his life in a flat in Paris. His life has intrigued many people and he has been the subject of many films and books. -Paul Sanford and Syma Sayyah - 4/6/11
Video Game Play and Addiction: Interview with Kourosh Dini
The winner of a Mom's Choice Award and the National Parenting Publication Award for his book, Video Game Play and Addiction: A Guide for Parents, Kourosh Dini, MD is a psychiatrist, author and musician. Dini's other works include Creating Flow with OmniFocus and his blog, KouroshDini.com, through which he shares his musings on the mind, music, play, productivity, and technology. -Wendy Armington and Neda Nabavi, PAAIA - 4/1/11
Iranian Writer Makes Book Available Online To Fight Censorship
Iranian writer Javad Saeedipour has made one of his books available on his blog for download, apparently because he wasn't able to get a publishing license from Iran's Culture Ministry, which has to approve all books before they are published. - 3/30/11
Simin Behbahani Named 2011 Farhang Heritage Award Recipient
Simin Behbahani was recognized by Farhang Foundation at the 2011 Farhang Heritage Award ceremony, which took place inside the Leo S. Bing Theater, as part of Farhang Foundation's Nowruz (Iranian New Year) Celebration at LACMA on Sunday, March 13, 2011. - 3/14/11
Ferdowsi Foundation honors Shahram Nazeri
The Ferdowsi Foundation paid tribute to the Iranian vocalist Shahram Nazeri on the last night of the Shahnameh concerts in Tehran. The foundation paid homage to Nazeri for his efforts and achievements in expanding the reading of Shahnameh. - 3/13/11
Book: The life and Times of Asghar Parsa, member and spokesperson of the Iranian National Front
Asghar Parsa (1919-2007) was a member of the Iranian Parliament (Majlis) during the rule of Dr. Mohammad Mosaddeq (1951-1953). Parsa became the spokesperson for the pro-Mosaddeq faction in the Majlis. After the 1953 coup, he was imprisoned with other members of the Iranian National Front. - 2/28/11
In the Language of Literature, Torn Between English and Persian
Many Iranian-American writers count themselves as bilingual, but most choose one language or the other as their primary tool. -Jeff Baron, America.gov - 2/13/11
Culinary Paradise - Festival of Persian Food
In SARABAN Greg and Lucy Malouf take us on a journey through modern-day Persia, uncovering a land where the rich diversity of climate, countryside, architecture and poetryprovide a fitting background for an equally varied and richness of cuisine. - 1/31/11
Mowlana, Poet of Life's Dance
Each year on December a religious celebration is held at the site of Rumi's tomb, to which tens of thousands of pilgrims come. In the shrine there is a silver plated step on which the followers of Mowlana rub their foreheads and place kisses. This area is usually cordoned off but is opened for these devotional actions during the December pilgrimage festivities. -Firouzeh Mirrazavi - 1/20/11
Iran denies ban on works of Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho
On Monday, Coelho issued a statement in his blog saying that Arash Hejazi, his editor in Iran had informed him that the Iranian ministry of culture had banned all his books. -Zamaneh - 1/15/11
SF Common Wealth Club Event: The Shah, the Ayatollah and Iran's nuclear program, Double-talk or Double-standards?
The Commonwealth Club will be hosting Abbas Milani in San Francisco. Abbas Milani, Co-Director of the Iran Democracy Project and author of The Shah, will reveal the complex and sweeping road that has brought the U.S. and Iran to where they are today. - 1/13/11
Leading Iranian Publishers, Writers Accused Of Attempting To Overthrow Islamic Establishment
Several of Iran's leading publishing houses have been accused of attempting to overthrow the Islamic establishment, suggesting that the government might be expanding the reach of its effort to counter the "soft war" it alleges is being waged against the Islamic republic. -Golnaz Esfandiari, RFE - 1/11/11
Paulo Coelho says Iran bans his books
The Alchemist author, whose sales top 300m in 150 countries, urges Brazilian government to intervene -Guardian - 1/11/11
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