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Adjusting the pages to the format of the LIT

This is the second day of working on the book. The countdown timer of the weblog said that there is just 97 days left till publication (do you know where is the time? At the left and top part of the homepage, you see three horizontal short lines? Klick it lightly. You see my profile and the timer there). Actually because I am working on my dissertation to make it as a book, there seems to be not much to do. But practically there are a looooooooot to do! Firstly I have to pay attention to the format of the book. My book will be published in (23,5 X 16,2 cm), in 256 pages, by the publishing company LIT . That means that I have to adjust the word to the proper format and give it nice and gentle margins!  Secondly I have to cut parts of the dissertation because 540 pages is much bigger than 256 pages, right? But even after cutting two chapter of method and review of literature, there is still a lot left! After resizing the file of the book in word, I realized that I have 3...

The First Step- the "Does Intercultural Dialogue matter" is borning

This is a start to write a short version book of my PhD dissertation.  I am going to use this weblog as a platform for informing my friends and my future book marketing launch team about the progress of the work and recieve their ideas. I started my PhD in 2012 in Duisburg-Essen University, in Germany. However for some personal reasons I changed my supervisor in 2013. He is a professor in Augsburg university, in city of Augsburg, which is located in south of Germany. I finished my PhD in early 2018. Yes, it took me at least six years. My dissertation is about intercultural dialogue between Western and Muslim countries. My case study is Iran and Germany. I have analyzed the cultural activities between the two countries; those which were implemented between 1998 and 2013. More specifically I worked on activities which were implemented under the discourse of intercultural dialogue in Iran and Germany. so every type of cultural activities is not included in my cases study....