![\"Teheran](\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Teheran-Book-Fair.jpg\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Join us for the first ever Tehran Book Fair Uncensored in Britain, an event featuring an independent book fair and a discussion on censorship in Iran since the 1979 Iranian Revolution.<\/p>\n
Taking place on 6-7 May 2016 at London\u2019s Free Word Centre, the book fair coincides with the Tehran Book Fair, but unlike the Iranian counterpart, it\u2019s free from censorship, and will feature censored books from independent Iranian publishers.<\/p>\n
Most of the event will be in Farsi, but there will be an English-language session too on Friday 6 May from 4.30pm to 5.30pm \u2013 in association with Index on Censorship and Small Media.<\/p>\n
Displayed books will range from novels to social science and from plays to history. Participants will also have the chance to see broadcasted footage from the Tehran International Book Fair<\/a>, and to get to know the publishers and authors and buy signed books.<\/p>\n Participating publishers at the book fair will include:<\/p>\n The English-language event on Friday 6 May will focus on censorship in Iran and will include a talk from Index on Censorship about its work across the Middle East. During this session,\u00a0Small Media<\/a> will also present Writer\u2019s Block<\/a>, an online interactive data visualisation of censorship in Iran since the 1979 revolution.<\/p>\n The event is free, but booking is required through Free Word Centre\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n When<\/strong>: English-Language event with Index on Censorship and Small Media, Friday 6 May 2016, 4.30pm. Farsi events: Friday 6 May 2016, 11am – Saturday 7 May 2016, 6pm Join the uncensored edition of the Tehran Book Fair, featuring books from independent Iranian publishers and a talk on censorship in the Middle East<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":74705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[8230,2294,6344,8231,7359,370,8232],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74703"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86557,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74703\/revisions\/86557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nWhere<\/strong>: Free Word Lecture Theatre at the Free Word Centre (map<\/a>)
\nTickets<\/strong>: Free, but booking required through Free Word Centre\u2019s website<\/a>. Tickets grant entry to the fair but the talks cannot be pre-booked \u2013 entry to these is allocated on the day on a first come, first served basis (lecture theatre capacity: 90 people).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"