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IS is continuing to reassert itself in Middle East heartlands, UN warned. 2020 will be remembered as a year of fear and uncertainty. While the Covid-19 pandemic catapulted human beings into a more globalised and digital lifestyle, it also revealed that they had not been able yet to “manage” the religious, racial, politico-ideological and other sorts of hatred even during these universally testing times. The year will also serve as a reminder that life remains vulnerable in t...

During the pandemic, faith has performed its role at several levels.

It’s an “excellent book that recounts a social and political experience similar to ours,” she said. “They tell us that other people have also gone through bitterness, hardship, and survived.” Reza Bahrami, 32, manages the main bookstore of another publisher, Cheshmeh, which means “source,” and said their “readership is 70 percent female.” “There is a lot of buzz and anticipation around new publications and this drives sales,” he said, surrounded by books at the Cheshmeh st...

Jewish and Israeli authors are favorites for literature-loving Tehran women Academic Yuval Noah Harari, poet Osip Mandelstam and Anne Franks diary, all translated into Persian, can also be found on display tables of bookshops in the Iranian capital; Mary Trumps tell-all on her uncle Donald has also hit the shelves AFP | Published: 12.24.20 , 19:00 French authors Albert Camus and Simone de Beauvoir rub shoulders with the likes of Jewish diarist Anne Frank and Russian poet Osip Mandelstam in T...

Foreign authors top sellers with literature-loving Tehran women AFP 22nd December, 2020 11:45:26 French authors Albert Camus and Simone de Beauvoir rub shoulders with the likes of Jewish diarist Anne Frank and Russian poet Osip Mandelstam in Tehran bookstores where the largely female readership lap up foreign writers. “Iranian women read more, translate more and write more. In general, they are more present in the book market than men,” said Nargez Mossavat, editorial director of Sales publ...