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29 Jan 2012 11:36 |
| By Farzam Shirzadi, storywriter, journalist: There are tens of publishers that blissfully release copies of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in varying facades without even bothering to work out their not-very-few printing oversights. The printed copies of Saadi's Bustan and Golestan as well as Divan of Hafez and the quatrain of Baba Taher are entrapped in a similar whirlpool of book fabrication in Iran. |
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9 Nov 2011 13:38 |
| Dr Behzad Ghaderi, university professor and translator: Tragedy has taken different forms and meanings in the passage of time and different cultures. Today when speaking about tragedy, we should first make clear which tragedy we have in mind ancient Greek tragedy, ancient Rome tragedy, Renaissance tragedy, Neoclassical tragedy of the 17th and 18th centuries in France and Spain, 18th century German tragedy, 19th century Scandinavian tragedy, or the 20th century? |
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5 Nov 2011 16:54 |
| Yaser Asgari; expert in Latin American studies: The ever-expanding ties between Iran and the countries of Latin and Central America in terms of politics and economy, on the one hand, and the tendency of developed and developing countries like the US, Russia, China, Japan and Turkey to focus towards the region, on the other hand, have made the area more strategically significant for Iran than before. |
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29 Oct 2011 13:31 |
| Secretary of Tehran Union of Publishers and Booksellers (TUPB): During the 63rd Frankfurt International Book Fair (FIBF), a total of 18 Iranian publishers participated in stalls spanning over an area of 116sqm. |
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20 Jul 2011 14:50 |
| Effective reading is perhaps the most essential skill in life, with effective writing a close second. We need to be able to communicate well. |
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27 May 2011 10:44 |
| Roya Dianat, journalist and editor-in-chief of IBNA World Service: One can find in almost all cultures a proverb somehow implying that when a door is shut, another one opens up. The issue of books being threatened by new technology has for long been disputed and revived by news from various parts of the world... |
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12 Apr 2011 17:27 |
| Mehdi Fadayi Mehrbani, doctorate student of political sciences: Henry Corbin (1903-1978) was an influential western philosopher whose span of life could be divided into two periods. The first half is distinguished with being a disciple of Martin Heidegger, and the second half begins when he got familiar with Islamic-Iranian philosophers… |
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19 Jan 2011 13:31 |
| Ali Agha Ghafar, chief editor of IBNA and Ketabe Hafteh weekly: I don’t care about those managers--cultural ones in particular--who cannot bare any criticism when holding posts; whose staunch companions are devoid of any patience to suspect the critics' "possibly" rightful, ruthful, expert and experienced accounts and impenitently overrule "them". |
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28 Dec 2010 15:11 |
| Dr Shervin Vakili, writer and researcher: The term 'Kherad' (wisdom) is one of the oldest words in Persian language. Iranians have used this term for more than 3 thousand years. In Zoroaster's 'Gahan', the concepts of wisdom and ration are expressed by the term Kherad and this is exactly what the Greek called Philosophia or 'philosophy' 600 years after Zoroaster. |
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19 Dec 2010 15:03 |
| Farzam Shirzadi, story writer and journalist: "Chronicle of a Death Foretold is the name of a story by Colombian writer who got fame in Iran and the world by his novel 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'. |
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15 Dec 2010 9:27 |
| The tragedy of Imam Hussein's martyrdom is the greatest tragedy in the history of humanity which has not been seen or heard of in any other nations in the world. |
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10 Nov 2010 11:16 |
| Dr Seyyed Mohsen Hashemi, art researcher: An interesting point in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh is that he acts as a screenwriter, director and editor all at once. He is a screenwriter because he has selected particular scenes from various narratives at hand that are the most effective and visual… |
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31 Oct 2010 10:27 |
| Dr Mir Jalaleddin Kazazi: I believe that in "Haft Peykar" (Seven Bodies) each plate or floor is transformed into a lady or palace. These seven palaces were separate and yet beside each other, and in each lady there lived a princess, each belonging to a different province. |
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23 Oct 2010 12:55 |
| Ali Agha Ghafar, IBNA's chief editor: The spiritual glitter of great men's thinking is so far-flung in space and time that overshadows all other beams of light in its way; only the coming generations would unravel the source of such glitters. |
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19 Sep 2010 10:54 |
| The one I know is not really one, but typical of a thousand alike who, until any further notice, should stay on earth – like an angel separated from his peers. |
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2 Aug 2010 13:06 |
| Bahram Roshanzamir responded to Ferdowsi being charged of neglecting women. He said “Feminist intellectuals only seem to aim at Ferdowsi. Why do they expect that Shahnameh heroes should be women instead of Zal or Rostam or Sohrab, whereas their own ideal heroes in west have been men like Harry Potter for centuries?” He asserted that comparative studies reveal women types in Shahnameh are more active than those in Iliad or Odyssey. |
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27 Mar 2010 13:48 |
| Though obedient, though rebellious a human constantly carries a Divine nature, thanks to the time when he discovers it and morns his separation and enjoys his connection. |
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21 Mar 2010 11:39 |
| IBNA: The media with general and particular audience are naturally able to sit many net surfers in front of their monitors and respond to their various interests and tastes. However, specific media are like windows to the panorama of special and proficient news and materials attracting only a special type of readers. Iran Book News Agency (IBNA) as the first and only specific book news agency of Iran and the world has managed to get closer to its real and medial position ... |
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15 Mar 2010 11:58 |
| Mohsen Ebrahim, Iranian writer and translator who for many years translated the best of Italian fiction into Persian. This modest translator died unexpectedly at the age 58 less than a month ago. He had written this note on the globalization of literature for IBNA, not long before he passed away. |
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27 Feb 2010 11:39 |
| 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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