Memoirs of Iranian Students in Abroad Published

According to Iran Book News-Agent (IBNA) –Memoirs of Struggling Iranian Students in abroad has been collected and published by Mojtaba Bagheri-Nezad. It is concerning with the unsparing activities of the students who were members of Unity of Islamic Associations in Europe and USA during 1344-1360 S.H. (1965-1982). This book is following five topics as: “12th meeting”, “Lamentation of Dr. Shariati”, “Eng. Bazargan’s letter to Ulema about Ayatollah Taleghani”, “the Unity statements concerning the food-strike” and “All around on the clergy’s statements”. In the preface of the book, Bagheri-Nezad states an introduction regarding the students of the Unity of Islamic Association in Europe:

Interview: "Truth Be Told"

"Publication of the book worried everyone", said the author of "Truth be Told" about his book. Ahmad Talebinejad, director, literati and film critic, has recently written a book which tells the stories and happenings behind Iran's film industry. The book's unprecedented candid tone has made it outstanding among other works released so far in Iranian book market about the cinema. Speaking with Iran Book News Agency, Talebinejad spoke about the aftermaths of the book's publication and its social reception. What follows is an exclusive excerpt from the interview.

A Diary of Iran and Transoxiana (beyond the (Oxus) river)

Mr. “Ka ge aki Oeba” who his pen name is “Ka ko e” had published his reports about his endless interesting traveling and visiting to different countries and regions throughout the world. He selected the business as a journal reporter to make the trips and to visit the far distance countries and regions, and then he sent his reports to Nation newspaper in Tokyo, Japan. Then, he collected the reports and published them in a book named “40 thousands miles distance from the north to the south”. He did not described about the undeveloped countries because he believed that most of other visitors had done it before, therefore, he liked to write about the regions where have been unknown to Japanese people. Thus, he had done his best struggle and focus on Oceania, South Africa and Latin America as well as Transoxiana (beyond the (Oxus) river) where the old origin civilizations were, therefore, he traveled to Iran in this regard. He had begun to write his diary in a book as mentioned title in the summer of 1910 when he made his trip from Russia to Iran and Transoxiana.

Diary Writing in Cyberspace

Weblog writing in Iran dates back to Khordad 1381 solar hijri (May 2001) when the first weblog service provider – persianblog – started its work. Weblog writing in Iran grew rapidly in a short time and at present the number of Iranian weblog writers has gone well over one million and according to figures, Iran ranks among the world’s top 10 countries in weblog writing. If we review the process of weblog writing in Iran in three stages, diary writing will be placed in its second one. At first, weblog writing was a collection of links and the descriptions corresponding the writer’s interest. Then, the weblogs came into existence which were more or less personal diary notebook. And in continuation, professional blogs in various fields such as astronomy, journalism, religion, politics and so on were created.

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