Does Intercultural Dialogue matter?

Working on the book faced a break because of the participation in a seminar on "Iran and Media". I ll continue working on the book from tomorrow. 9.Hafis-Dialog was organized by the foundation of Konrad Adenauer. get more info here. The seminar was taken palace in Weimar. That is why I used the opportunity to make some photos from the Denkmal of Hafis-Goethe there. I am going to use the photo for the front page of the book.

For a long time I had no time and opportunity to write about the book project, here. Though I was active to manage relevant things for it. I am grateful to share here that Seyed Mohammad Khatami, the former president of Iran (1997-2005), send a foreword for my book. I have to of course translate the text to English. The text is very nice and poetic written in Farsi. I am really happy that he trusted me and lets his word comes at the beginning of the book.  his text is short and at the end of the text I see his presonal greetings to me, in his own handwriting. I hope the book reflects interesting points. then that would be a good combination of analysis on dialogue and words of somebody who tried to extend the dialogue culture in the Iranian society a decade ago.  Thanks to Miss. Sadr for her strong and uninterrupted supports...

Writing up the chapter 4, i consider again the analysis on Rayzani. The Iranian foreign cultural policy is a fragmented system. the good example is the pattern of cultural working towards Germany. in Berlin there are two type of cultural section under the supervision of the Iranian embassy. One is an office inside the Iranian embassy and the second one a branch office of the organization of Islamic Culture and Relations. Interestingly both call themselves: “ Kulturabteilung der iranischen Botschaft ”.  i am page 107 of 370 pages! still a lot to do :D