When it comes to books and their role in the city and community, Iranian cities have fascinating stories to share. This is the land where for centuries books have acted as intermediaries, connecting many horizons, creating even more spaces and stories. On the one hand, it is the books that have brought the holy to the earth and into ordinary households, and on the other hand, they have connected many domains of human life: they have connected the past to the present and to the future, established the relationship between the nation and the state, bridged the East and the West, and even have supported the relationship between culture and economy. Also, books continue the generational flows, as they stitch thousands of pages and layers of human society and culture together. These complex roles of books have even further flourished despite the appearance of more modern competitors and the emergence of new institutions; they continue to play their active and creative role in the construction and development of human life. (more ...)
Find a BookcityBookcity is present in more than 40 cities of Iran and is rapidly growing it's network. You can get books, magazines, CDs and ... in any of our bookstores. Find the store which best suits you and pay us a visit:
This week’s Cinema Mediation session at Bahar BookCity in Isfahan focused on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and The Little Prince. The conversation began with literature and animation and, through the presence of a pilot, moved toward the experience of flight and its connection to different ways of seeing the world. In the first part of the […] (read more ...)
On Monday, 23 Shahrivar, Ahvaz BookCity hosted a meeting and conversation with writer Mostafa Mastoor. The discussion explored the inner world of fictional characters: love and loneliness, faith and doubt, life and death, and the moments when stories blur the boundary between “I” and “the other”. Participants shared their questions with the writer and revisited […] (read more ...)
To honour Abolhassan Najafi’s contribution to translation and encourage translators to enrich the Persian language, the Book City Cultural Institute will hold the tenth edition of the Abolhassan Najafi Prize this Bahman. The prize will recognise the best translations of a novel and a collection of short stories published in 1404, with an award and […] (read more ...)
