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.
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