A senior Xhinese cultural official described public welcome accorded to the 24 th TIBF event as exceptional and peerless.   Deputy Chinese Director of General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP), Yu Shu Lin, who is currently in Tehran heading a delegation to visit the landmark cultural event, was speaking to the book fair's press office.   Yu Shu Lin said he was delighted at his visit to the book fair and vowed to dispatch a delegation for every next ...

2011-05-07 08:30

The 24 th edition of the Tehran International Book Fair has been accorded a rare welcome from other countries with up to 500 foreign guests joining the major cultural event.   The foreign guests would be at hand at the international section and enliven the already shining international aspect of the book event, according to the book fair's press office.   67 nations have put their titles on stalls in the 24 th TIBF event with 37 countries having set ...

2011-05-04 08:30

A World Book Corner  for book sales as a traditional section of the Tehran International Book Fair has usually been paid an enthusiastic welcome in every edition by publishers from home and abroad.   The World Center hall in the 24 th edition of the landmark cultural event has opened in an area of 1,200 square meters with 44 pavilions inside where Iranian publishers will market their publications, Iran Book News Agency (IBNA) reported Tuesday.   67 nations have put ...

2011-05-04 08:30

TIBF chief executive described President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a brave, committed, and untiring man who is devoted to the doctrine of Wilaya-te Faqih.   Bahman Dorri also said that the president exercises a kind of relationship with the Islamic Revolution Leader Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei unfathomable by the customary political relations of the world today .   He was commenting on the recent false propaganda by mainstream western media that the president had suffered a schism with the I.R. Leader.   ...

2011-05-04 08:30

  IRI President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad described Tehran International Book Fair as an enormous human event and expressed hope that one day all arms would convert to pens and all politicians worldwide would adopt the rhetoric of intellect, knowledge and humanity instead of that of pride and prejudice.   President Ahmadinejad was speaking Tuesday to an inaugural ceremony    for the 24 th edition of the landmark cultural event at Imam Khomeini Mosalla (grand mosque) north of the capital.   The ...

2011-05-04 08:30

Scores of programs on different cultural themes will be carried out for the public during the 24 th edition of Tehran International Book Fair (TIBF), Chief Executive, Bahman Dorri said.   Speaking to the TIBF press office, Dorri asserted that there was a need for promotion of religious knowledge in the society and for the same reason the 24 th edition of the major cultural event had adopted a related motto, namely "promotion of religious knowledge and cultural insight."   ...

2011-05-02 08:30

  Spokesman of the Iranian parliamentary committee on cultural affairs has described Tehran International Book Fair (TIBF) as the largest Iranian national cultural event, urging for due panning to expand and promote the event.   Behrus Jafari told the 24 th TIBF news office Saturday that the book fair was a major opportunity for presenting the country's cultural achievements and the accomplishments of the publication industry in the past year. "This helps encourage competitiveness among publishers and authors," he added. ...

2011-05-01 08:30

  3952 publishers have joined the 24 th Tehran International Book Fair with 1614 publishers coming from abroad, according to IRI Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Sayyed Muhammad Husseini who was speaking to a media conference Tuesday.   The media conference which broached the case of the international cultural event was staged in the events hall of the ministry's department of cinema affairs and also heard from Bahman Dorri, his deputy in cultural affairs, Ehsanollah Hojjati, deputy chief executive ...

2011-04-28 08:30

Foreign publishers are set to put about 196,200 titles on their show stalls in the 24 th edition of Tehran International Book Fair (TIBF), according to Ali Alipour, deputy of the international section in the TIBF policy committee.   Publishers from up to 76 foreign countries are at hand in the 24 th edition with Cuba, Uruguay and Brazil having their debut shows in the major international cultural event, Alipour told IBNA (Iran Book News Agency) Monday.   Concerning the ...

2011-04-26 08:30

A senior official with the 24 th Tehran International Book Fair (TIBF) called the cultural event as an exceptional cultural rendezvous in the world and called on publishing associations at home to play their part in helping IRI to garner a major share in the international book market.   Muhammad-Reza Vasfi, director of the TIBF committee in international affairs told the book fair's press office Saturday that national publishing apparatus bore some undertaking in setting the stage for an interface ...

2011-04-25 08:30