Mahboub, Siamak

[ 1 ] - The Reading Crisis in Iran (During the 1960s and 1970s): A Critical Discourse Analysis

Purpose: Reading is one of the challenging problems in contemporary Iran. After the Persian Constitutional Revolution (1905-1911), reading becomes one of the factors that Iranians considered it necessary for modernization and development. For this reason, most people, even who were literate, had no desire to read. This situation was unpleasant for intellectuals, publishers and cultural activist...