TEHRAN – “A Lesson Before Dying” by novelist Ernest J. Gaines has been published by Naqshe Jahan in Persian.

Originally published in 1993, the book has been translated into Persian by Seyyed Reza Ebrahimi.

“A Lesson Before Dying” is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor sto

TEHRAN – Songwriter and musician Hamid Shahangian, best known for the anthem “Khomeini, Oh Imam!”, was honored on Sunday by the 38th Fajr Music Festival.

He received an award from Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Mohammad-Mehdi Esmaeili at Tehran’s Arasbaran Cultural Center.

Shahangian was also presented with a portrait of himself done by

TEHRAN – American philosopher Susan Neiman’s 2019 publication “Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil” will be reviewed on Tuesday during a meeting at the Book City Institute in Tehran.

Mohammad-Mostafa Bayat, the translator of the Persian edition of the book, and Amir Saemi, a philosophy scholar from the Institute for Research in

Nafiseh Zarei is a media activist who began writing seriously with short tales and poems around ten years ago.

The book "A Khaki Wrestling Singlet," which is about the life of the martyred athlete Asghar Manafizadeh, is this author's first significant contribution to the genre of defense literature.

* What of your works, Ms. Zarei, have been