Azadeh Parsapour, Author at International Publishers Association

Opinion

Persian Twitter is filled with an image showing two different covers of the third-grade math textbook in Iran these days. One is from 2019 depicting...

Educational Publishing, Freedom to Publish, Publishing industry

Opinion

Azadeh Parsapour

In Praise of Iran’s Independent Literary Awards

September 16, 2019

Every year I read dozens of manuscripts submitted to our publishing house. Unfortunately not all of them are as enjoyable or educating as I expect...

Freedom to Publish, Publishing industry

Opinion

Azadeh Parsapour

The Endangered Joy of Reading in Iran

December 12, 2018

Iran celebrated its national book week from 15 to 22 November this year with the slogan ‘The Great Joy of Reading’. The book week is...

book office censors, Censorship, Freedom to Publish, Iran, Publishing industry, Self-publishing

Opinion

Azadeh Parsapour

Self-publishing in Iran; a tale of dare and dilemma

September 20, 2018

The first time I encountered a self-published book in Iran was about 10 years ago. My blogger friend tried to publish his first collection of...

Opinion

Azadeh Parsapour

To Detect The Footprints Of A Censor

June 28, 2018

Turkey’s Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk was invited to Iran by one of his Iranian publishers Qoqnus to attend the Tehran International Book Fair in May....