News
A cup for book readers
Read Hamshahri newspaper’s article about third year of book club’s activities in link below: A cup for book readers
Interviews
An interview with Docharkheh weekly
Docharkheh weekly is the most popular teenager and children journal in Iran. This week they had an interview with me about writing for children, promoting book activities and my life experiences. Link of the interview: http://www.hamshahrionline.ir/details/415812
Notes
If the terrorist had read books in their childhood …
Upon seeing the first images of the figures suspected for the Brussels’ blast on TV, I thought to myself if they had read poems and stories in their childhood, and had developed and deepened their acquaintance with others through various characters and worlds pictured in books, would their mind welcome Read more…
Notes
Night Circus by Delssert and Kafka, Beckett, Ionesco, etc.
Although Iran is not a member of the Berne Convention and Iranian internal laws do not protect international rights for publishing foreign works in Persian, some Iranian publishers feel an ethical obligation to observe copyright and strive to publish the translation of selected foreign books only after buying their rights. Read more…
Notes
Pardeh-Khani
When I was a child, a kind of art was popular in Iran, which I can describe as a sort of collective illustration reading. I have been captivated with this art for a while, thinking how greatly it resembles “reading” a picture book or an illustrated story, feeling amazed that Read more…
Notes
Why Should Children Read Books with so Much Entertainment Around?
Persian fallow deer is a rare, endangered animal in Iran, but also the name of an Iranian award for children’s books, the first ceremony of which was held last week. This award is characterized by the participation of the whole family in the act of reading. Parents and children Read more…
books
Carpet-Moustache Grandpa
One day at school, the protagonist is told that his parents had to go on a trip and he should stay at his grandparents’ for the time being. His grandfather has a very big moustache for which he is famous. However, after a TV crew makes a program about his Read more…
books
A Rainbow in My Pocket
a review by Jill Bennett How can you put a rainbow in your pocket? Seemingly the little child in this book has an answer to what sounds like a riddle and it’s one she shares with readers in her poetic outpourings – her musings, preoccupations and daydreams. ‘Excuse me, /Little Read more…
books
The Throneless Prince of the Underground
The Throneless Prince of the Underground tells the adventure of five boys who want to dig an underground tunnel in order to travel across the globe from Iran to the United States. The difference between the restrooms in Iran and the US is the main reason for them to undertake Read more…
books
Bijan & Manije
Bijan & Manije is a beautiful story of love across the divide, reminiscent of Romeo and Juliet, but with a distinctive Persian flavour. A twist of fate brings Bijan face to face with the daughter of his enemy. They fall in love and refuse to abandon each other, even under Read more…