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15-01-2007
Translation (slowly) opening doors in Iran
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Lahore, Pakistan (D Times): Eminent academics in Iran and abroad are actively involved in pushing the boundaries of Iran’s intellectual culture, many of them by translating for a ‘thirsty’ and growing Persian readership western works in literature, art and sciences. […] The importance of such a vibrant intellectual culture signifying a broadening of life’s horizons becomes all the more vital in light of the much-quoted Arab Human Development Reports published by the UNDP in 2002 and 2003. […] Only 339 books, the report observed, were translated annually in the whole of Arab world, ‘one-fifth the number that Greece translates’ in a year.
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