Group Pushing Iranian Novels in English
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The Association of American Publishers is offering financial assistance for U.S. publishers interested in releasing English-langauge editions of three Iranian novels, to help open up a tight market for books in translation.
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Six authors from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt are on the shortlist as finalists for the first-ever International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
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Iranians are deeply divided on politics, the economy, the role of religion in government and a dress code for women. But reformers and conservatives, urban and rural, old and young
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Authors from India, the guest country at the 58th Frankfurt Book Fair, hailed the chance to show off an intriguing nation on the move at the publishing world's biggest annual event.
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Author Salman Rushdie, issued with a fatwa by Iran&#39;s revolutionary leader 18 years ago, and former England cricketer Ian Botham were awarded knighthoods by Queen Elizabeth II on Saturday.
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CAIRO -- International human rights groups urged Iran yesterday to immediately release four Iranian-American scholars and activists being held on suspicion of spying.
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Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has written a letter to the American people that will be released at U.N. headquarters in New York on Wednesday, a state newspaper reported.
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Indian literature, already known around the world for such English-language authors as Salman Rushdie and Rohinton Mistry, is reaching out to a broader audience for works in dozens of Indian languages at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
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QOM, Iran -- These are pilgrims of a different kind. Several times a week, Shi'ite Muslim clerics and community leaders from neighboring Iraq climb stairs to a little office in this Iranian city of shrines and Islamic seminaries. There, an aged and hunched figure sits on a swivel chair fitted with an electric blanket.
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The following is a summary of developments in the standoff over Iran&#39;s controversial nuclear programme. In August 2002, a group of Iranian exiles, the National Council of Resistance
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Iran on Saturday accused British leaders of &quot;Islamophobia&quot; for knighting Indian-born author Salman Rushdie, who was issued with a death fatwa by Iran&#39;s revolutionary leader 18 years ago.
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Disciplinary action against  outspoken students and academics is soaring in Iran, reports say.
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Two announcements Sunday appeared intended to enforce Iranâs refusal to back down in the face of stepped-up pressure from the United States.
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Iran said on Saturday turnout was high in elections for local councils and a powerful clerical body, with some initial reports suggesting allies of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad might not have won resounding backing.
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Thousands of Iranians rallied near the site of a European Union summit Thursday to demand that the nations comply with a court ruling and remove an exiled Iranian resistance movement from its list of terrorist organizations.
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Textbooks used in Iran's schools are instilling students with hatred toward the West, especially the United States, and urging them to become "martyrs" in a global holy war against countries perceived to be enemies of Islam, a new study says.
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Iran accused Britain on Sunday of insulting Islam by awarding a knighthood to Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" prompted the late Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa death warrant for him.