Tehran, Rome to Deepen Cultural Cooperation

Referring to Tehran International Book Fair, Ashena said that TIBF has turned into a landmark book fair in the Middle East and Asia, and this event is the most significant financial turnover in the field of Iran’s culture.

Given Italy was the year’s Guest of Honor at TIBF in 2017, he noted that Iran is going to participate at Turin International Book Fair as guest of honor due to the suggestion of Italian embassy in Tehran. He also invited Silvio Viale to visit TIBF in 2020.

The purpose of Iran Cultural Fairs Institute’s presence at 33rd Turin International Book Fair is to examine the quantitative and qualitative level of this exhibition for the proper participation of Iranian publishers and evaluation of being special guest of Iran at this exhibition, he added.

Silvio Viale also said that he is glad that Iran has participated in this exhibition for the first time, adding, an average of 1,200 publishers have participated in this event and it is expected to visit by 150.000 visitors.

Turin International Book Fair officials believe that special guests should be selected from different parts of the world every year, Viale noted.

The Turin International Book Fair is Italy's largest fair for books, held annually in mid-May in Turin. It is held on 9-13 May 2019.

Back in early December, an Iranian parliamentary delegation visiting Rome held a meeting with a group of Italian members of parliament, and the two sides pledged to broaden educational and academic cooperation between the two countries.

“Italy is a major destination for the Iranian students,” head of the Iranian parliamentary delegation Assadalloh Abbasi said on December 05 in the meeting between the lawmakers of the two countries.

Abbasi called for promotion of cooperation between the Iranian and Italian academic centers and facilitating presence of Iranian students, there.

During the meeting, President of the Commission for Culture, Education and Science of the Chamber of Deputies in the XVIII legislature Luigi Gallo welcomed cooperation with Iranian academic and education centers.

He promised to resolve the problems of Iranian students in Italy.

Also in December, Prominent Italian pianist and composer Federico Albanese held a concert in Iran's capital city of Tehran before going on stage in the Southern city of Shiraz in Fars province.

Federico Albanese, a renowned Italian musician who is famous for minimalistic piano melodies, string arrangements, and electronica, visited Iran, upon the invitation of RooBeRoo Mansion, to hold a concert in Tehran and Shiraz on December 7 and 9, respectively.

Back in October, Italian Ambassador in Iran Mauro Conciatori in a meeting with Iranian Deputy Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance for Art Affairs Mojtaba Hosseini said that Italy is preparing to open a cultural center in Tehran, and along with Iran’s cultural attaché to Italy, enables both nations to enjoy various artistic events.

He referred to the recent performance of the Italian artist Nicola Piovani in Tehran, and said that the Italian artist is interested to hold such concert again, like other Italian artists who have held concerts or exhibitions in Iran.

Mojtaba Hosseini, for his part, expressed Iran’s readiness to strengthen ties with Italy in different artistic fields.

He named Fajr International Film Festival as a great opportunity to resume the cooperation in artistic fields. 

Hosseini also referred to the variety of folk costumes in Iranian southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan, and said that the cloth design college that has been recently established in that province is a place that Italian designers can be introduced to Iranian cloth design.

A week before that, Mauro Conciatori asserted that Rome is determined to bolster and enhance mutual cooperation with Tehran.

The Italian envoy made the remarks on October 15, addressing the inaugural ceremony of the newly-built building of Iran-Italy Joint Chamber of Commerce in Tehran. Chairman of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA) Gholamhossein Shafiei was also among the participants.

Two days after that, Italian Trade Commissioner in Iran Augusto Di Giacinto announced that Italy is eyeing expansion of mutual cooperation with Iran.

Source:Farsnews