Niavaran BookCity will host a commemoration of Dr Mahshid Moshiri, an Iranian lexicographer, linguist, novelist and translator, under the title “The Lady of One Hundred Books.” The programme will take place on Thursday, 18 June 2026 (28 Khordad 1405), from 5 to 7 p.m., with talks by Aydin Mirzad, Ali Kashifi Khansari, Mahnoush Moshiri, Golavij […]

Few nineteenth-century English novelists have enjoyed a reception in Iran as wide and enduring as that of Jane Austen. For decades, her novels have been repeatedly translated, reprinted, and read by generations of Iranian readers, particularly women, who have found in her restrained prose, moral intelligence, and attention to everyday life a familiar and deeply […]