The novel "Ghadeh al-Saman" and the war in the Middle East led me to make a short film

The director of "Shabi Dar Watan" said: This film is an adaptation of a Lebanese novel written by Ghadeh Al-Saman. While reading the novel, I came across an image in the sixth story that caught my attention; Pulling up the basket of a person who was caught in the battlefield. This image became an attractive motif for me and I decided to use it as a basis for writing the script.

Iranian ambassador Arjan's art service; The 43rd Tehran International Short Film Festival starts today, and one of its attractive sections for book and literature lovers is the "Cinema and Books" section. In this section, short films adapted from literary works are shown, and the film "A Night in the Homeland" is one of the films in this year's "Cinema and Book" section.

Fateme Sadat Seyed Azizi, the director of the short film "A Night in the Homeland", one of the works present at the 43rd Tehran International Short Film Festival, said in an interview with Ambassador Arjan: "I have been participating in this festival for about seven or eight years; Sometimes as a guest and sometimes as a filmmaker, but this is the first time that my film has entered the festival and this has given me a different experience. However, more than the presence of my own film, I am happy that my friends' works are also present in the festival and we can watch the films together and follow the judging process.

He explained about the formation of the idea of "A Night in the Homeland": This film is an adaptation of a Lebanese novel written by Ghadeh Al-Saman. While reading the novel, I came across an image in the sixth story that caught my attention; Pulling up the basket of a person who was caught in the battlefield. This image became an attractive motif for me and I decided to use it as a basis for writing the script. On the other hand, due to the years of conflict in the Middle East with war, this issue was also my personal concern and this issue made me focus more on it. The director said about the theme of the film: "A night in the homeland" is about middle-aged people who unintentionally got involved in an unequal war and lost their children during it; People who are now left alone and forgotten. I wanted to remind that before power, money and anything else, we should prioritize people, especially innocent people who suffer and are forgotten during the war regardless of their age. Seyed Azizi also said about the role of adaptation in the formation of the script: adaptation can act like the chain of a rosary; It provides the story line and the main events to the filmmaker, and it is his art to be able to connect and portray the elements of the story in the script and direction. I believe that literature has a great capacity to increase the richness, coherence and catchiness of the screenplay and can help the filmmaker to express his idea and point of view better.

The book "A critical reading of the novel The face of an artist in his youth" written by David Said, a professor at the University of Liverpool, was released in the market with the translation of Manouchehr Badii.

The "Dialogue on Social History" event is held in collaboration with the House of History and Community, the Center of Isfahan Studies, the House of Nations, and the Book City of Bahar.

"White Authority" ceremony was held at the same time as the blessed birthday of Hazrat Zainab (PBUH) and Nurse's Day with the aim of honoring the memory of three martyred nurses of the 12-Day War, Martyr Mahnaz Nemati, Martyr Homan Ghiathund and Martyr Mahdiar Puriyamin, in Golestan Cultural Center.

The book "Cup and Cebu" contains the common manifestations of thought and expression in the poetry of Hafez and Shah Nematullah, but it was launched by Ostad Shahryar Publishing House.

"A woman's chirping voice" has very pleasant and familiar prose poetics that sometimes crosses the poetic prose and becomes the poem itself, "My blue imagination passed through the memory of the sea".

The Vice-Chancellor of Cultural Affairs of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance honored Sara Zibadel, the bookseller of Saru Gorgan Bookstore, who, while working in this bookstore, has achieved the rank of 33 in the national entrance exam.

Are these lost worlds just a play of the imagination, or do they hold some of the truth of history? Nazman starts from this question, in this book, Emmanuel Carrer is not trying to rewrite the past, nor is he trying to create an imaginary world. What he explores is our relationship with history; The long-standing belief that the past, once realized, is only the past, was also possible.

The responsible director of Hazara Phoenix Publishing wrote about the changes and developments of this event on the occasion of holding the Frankfurt Book Fair 2026.

The "Life Exercise" book center will hold its second meeting on the topic of "The Dos and Don'ts of Sexual Education (from the Islamic point of view)" on Sunday evening, October 26, at Farhangsarai Saru.

The film opens with a quote from Oscar Wilde: "One must always be in love; That's why they should never get married." This sentence, regardless of whether it is correct or incorrect, is the overall picture of the situation of the two main characters in facing their shared life that has been going on for many years. What remains is a series of failures and failures that seem to show themselves more in their life together.

The book clearly fills the central vacuum in the literature on political development in Iran.

Maryam Musharraf, a researcher and professor at Shahid Beheshti University, pointed out the lasting position of Iranian writers in a conversation with Ambassador Arjan.

"What is a myth?" It is held in Shahid Beheshti University.

The nine hundred and eighty second night of Bukhara is dedicated to the Iranian garden. The screening of three documentary films about Iranian gardens will be one of the other parts of this meeting.

The 21st meeting of the series of Sunday evening meetings in Bukhara is devoted to the review of the book "Armenian Dam of the Turan Route: The Problem of the Alleged Zangzor Corridor".

The director of the play "Fleeting and Lasting Loves" said: "The fact is that I did not want to stage a completely Chekhovian performance." I did not intend to preserve all the features of the original text and recreate the same world in all its details.

The 92nd night of Iran is dedicated to "Baharistan Square Night". In this meeting, the book "Midan Baharestan" (historical events and developments from 1188 to 1399) will be reviewed.

The cultural introduction center of the cultural heritage and tourism research institute, in collaboration with Bukhara magazine, organizes the unveiling ceremony of the new edition of the book "Maajm al-Beldan" by Yaqut Hamavi.

Ali Al-Dawood, a history researcher and member of the Supreme Scientific Council of the Islamic Encyclopaedia Center, said: "Many of today's young generation or intellectuals who are more left consider Foroughi to be the agent of England." This is despite the fact that, in my opinion, none of these families were agents, but they were patriotic people and supporters of Iran's progress, but they avoided harsh political actions and perhaps they can be considered conservative politicians.

Maryam Hosseini, a researcher of literary criticism and textual studies, called the book "Literary Schools" by Reza Seyed Hosseini "the cornerstone of literary schools in Iran" and said: "Any researcher in this field cannot present a valuable work without studying it." Praising Seyyed Hosseini's mastery as a translator and his translations of Malraux, Sartre, Camus and Balzac, he considered the two gaps in the book to be the lack of modernism and postmodernism and the imbalance of the chapters.

The book "Yadegar Nik" reflects part of the Zoroastrian society's efforts in preserving the culture and history of Iran and Yazd and shows the cultural and social alignment of Zoroastrians and Muslims of Yazd. "Good souvenir" reminds us of the memories, smells, tastes, sights, heard and names that were and are gone.

Khorasan Razavi- Seyyed Hossein Khadiojam, a writer, translator, researcher and ghazal scholar, was very fond of books because he considered entering the National Library of Iran and becoming a librarian one of his dreams.

Ilam - Director General of Culture and Islamic Guidance of Ilam Province announced that 135 books of the 8th edition of the Book of the Year Award of the province have been sent to Iran Book and Literature House for judging and evaluation.

The commemoration ceremony of the 100th birthday of "Reza Seyed Hosseini", the late translator and cultural writer, was held on Tuesday 21 Mehr with the cooperation of Soroush Publications at the center of the Islamic Encyclopaedia. Mahshid Nonhali called him "a world of love for the culture of this land", Seyyed Ali Al Dawood spoke of his collaboration in "Culture of Artifacts", Mehdi Firouzan mentioned his visit at the book fair in 1364, and Ahmad Masjidjamei called him "a child of suffering and humility". At the end, a documentary by Mehrdad Doferi was broadcast.

The book "From the Beginning to the End of Babylon Civilization" is a narrative of a historical journey; From the birth of Babylon by the Euphrates to the reign of kings such as Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar II, from the bloody battles with Elam and Assyria to its sudden conquest by Cyrus the Great.

Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh, the well-known figure of political geography and prominent professor of Persian Gulf studies, died in London at the age of 81 after a period of illness.

Zanjan - The Executive Secretary of the 11th Zanjan Book Fair announced the extension of visiting hours until 10:00 PM on the final days of the exhibition and praised the unprecedented reception of citizens and cultural campaigns.

Lorestan - Director General of Lorestan Public Libraries said: A collection of 10,000 audio book titles was added to the resources of the blind section of the central library of the province.

Lorestan - Literary and cultural circles of Lorestan province celebrated Hafez Memorial Day by holding various programs including academic meetings and poetry evenings, focusing on preserving the Persian language and explaining his thoughts.

An evening meeting with Fereydoun Majlisi was held on Wednesday (October 21, 1405) at Badragh Javidan Publishing House under the pretext of publishing the book "Discussions in New York, Machiavelli in Isfahan", from the series of Asr Roshan meetings organized by Marvarid Publishing House.

"Blind Owl" is not one of those books that you can just read and then close and put away. Some novels stay in the mind after they are finished because they told a good story or created a memorable character. But the owl remains blind in a different way. This book settles something in the reader, something like air, taste, darkness, and a kind of vague familiarity with a wound that may have been in the person before, but it didn't have a name.

Fars - the book "Lari Coins; From the Persian Gulf to the Indian Ocean" compiled, compiled and translated by Fatemeh Qomlaghi, was unveiled in the Larestan Pavilion at Shiraz Expo 2026.

Dehdashti writer Aftab Afridon believes that instead of analyzing the contradictions of the power structure in Ail, the tensions caused by facing the transition period and class divisions, most of the local writers have turned to creating decorative images and postcards from the past.

Zanjan - Following the reception of the 11th Zanjan Book Fair by various people, the executive secretary of the event announced the increase of visiting hours on Friday and the one-day extension of the exhibition until the end of Saturday.

"Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak and its film adaptation directed by David Lane are among the most significant examples of the connection of literature, history and cinema in the 20th century. This work, beyond a romantic narrative in the context of the Russian Revolution, reflects a fundamental question, the fate of the individual and personal morality in a world overshadowed by history and ideology.

Professor Perigarina has received numerous international awards and honors from Pakistan, India and Iran, among them the gold medal for the best Persian language teacher from the Iranian government before the Islamic Revolution and the World Book of the Year Award of the Islamic Republic of Iran for the translation of the Masnavi in 2009.