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the politics of public space

Tehran's book fair: the politics of public space

By Kaveh Ehsani
The Daily Star
Saturday, August 07, 2004


For 10 days in May the 17th Tehran International Book and Media Fair was
held in two dozen hangar-like buildings at the capital's vast and pleasant
International Fair Ground. Since 1998, after the reformist Mohammad Khatami
was elected president, the annual fair has become Iran's largest public
event, regularly attracting more than 2 million visitors a year, nearly as
many as make the Hajj pilgrimage. This year some 2200 domestic and 1200
international publishers from 39 countries displayed 250 thousand titles.


Full at:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=21&article_id=7029

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