I met the principal of a famous primary school in Tehran a few days ago. He asked my advice about how to encourage his students to read. I suggested that he should get his students joined the children book club cup and gave him some explanations. As I got home, Read more…
I’ve been traveling for a while, and meeting with children and reading promoters has been on my schedule. Last Saturday, a group of book reading clubs’ active members and I came together to have a chat and sign my books in Sabzevar, a city in Razavi Khorasan Province. It was Read more…
Last Thursday, I got up at 3:30 a.m. so as to catch the first flight to Kermanshah city. It’s a two hour drive from Kermanshah to Sannadaj (the capital of Kurdistan Province), a mountainous city located in the west of Iran, where people speak Kurdish. Since it was a one-day-long Read more…
During the last fortnight, over 1200 kindergarten teachers attended workshops on reading promotion, which were held in Tehran. These workshops were parts of the bigger plan of ‘Mondays for Reading’, in which the Iranian association of the kindergartens’ heads, the coordinating center of booklovers all around the country, the Iranian Read more…
Last week, Mr. Bertrand Bainvel, UNICEF Representative in Middle East and North Africa, and I met up with members of the Nasimshahr’s book club for kids and young adults. Nasimshahr is a small town, situated south of Tehran, wherein Afghan and Iranian (from all around the country) migrant workers live. Read more…