President Hassan Rouhani Honors Journalists at Tehran Press Festival

A number of journalists and veterans were honored by President Hassan Rouhani during the closing ceremony of the 20th edition of the Tehran Press Festival on Saturday. IBNA: According to Tehran Times, veteran journalists and editors Farajollah Saba, Ahmad Samiei Gilani and Parviz Khorsand received lifetime achievement awards and 35 reporters, journalists and photojournalists were awarded, Persian media reported on Saturday. Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ali Jannati, the Deputy Culture Minister for Press Affairs Hossein Entezami, and a number of art and cultural figures and veteran journalists attended the closing ceremony, which took place at Vahdat Hall.

Persian Readers to Enjoy Memoirs of Pilot of First Flight to Iran

The Iranian translator Seyyed Saeid Firuzabadi is currently working on the memoirs of the Swiss pilot Walter Mittelholzer who made the first flight to Iran in 1925. IBNA: According to Tehran Times, 'Flying to Persia' will be probably be published by Farhang-e Moaser in May 2014. In this book, Mittelholzer chronicles his adventures during the 104-day voyage to Iran. Mittelholzer took off from Zürich on December 18, 1924, to fly to Persia. His aircraft was a Junkers A 20 floatplane and named Switzerland.

Japanese, Iranian Writers Meet at Tehran Peace Museum

Naoki Hyakuta, the Japanese author of “The Man Who Was Called a Pirate”, and Habib Ahmadzadeh, the Iranian author of “Chess with the Doomsday Machine”, met at The Tehran Peace Museum on Saturday to discuss works which promote nationalism in the countries of the two writers. IBNA: According to Tehran Times, “The Man Who Was Called a Pirate” is a historical novel based on the Nissho Maru Incident, in which the Japanese oil company Idemitsu won a court case against the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in 1953 when Iran was involved in a dispute with Great Britain after nationalizing its oil industry.

Reprinted: ‘Daily Notes' of Najaf Daryabandari

The second reprint of ‘Daily Notes, Thirty Days with Najaf Daryabandari' compiled by Mehdi Mozaffari Savoji has been released by Negah Publications. IBNA: The book covers numerous sessions with Daryabandari by Savoji which was debuted last month and has been reprinted shortly after its release. During the sessions and the dialogues, Daryabandari has provided concise but detailed responses to the questions asked by Savoji about numerous social, political and cultural issues. Also the book entails memories of Daryabandari, one of the most renowned and respected Iranian translators who has won the Thornton Wilder award from Colombia University in Canada.

Days of Revolution

Outside of Shiraz in the Fars Province of southwestern Iran lies "Aliabad." Mary Hegland arrived in this then-small agricultural village of several thousand people in the summer of 1978, unaware of the momentous changes that would sweep this town and this country in the months ahead. She became the only American researcher to witness the Islamic Revolution firsthand over her eighteen-month stay. Days of Revolution offers an insider's view of how regular people were drawn into, experienced, and influenced the 1979 Revolution and its aftermath.

Q&A with oral historian Sara Wood

The stories and history surrounding Southern food are just as colorful and diverse as the food itself. The Southern Foodways Alliance collects stories from across the region and celebrates the contributions of countless classes, races and ethnicities on Southern cuisine. Based in Wilmington, N.C., Sara Wood works as an oral historian with the SFA. The Daily Tar Heel sat down with Wood to find out more about her research and what she has learned from working in the South.

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