Bukhara magazine is a Persian language

Persian language

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 magazine

Magazine

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 published in Tehran

Tehran

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 and edited by Ali Dehbashi

Ali Dehbashi

Ali Dehbashi is an Iranian journalist, Iranologist, researcher and writer.Ali Dehbashi is a member of Societas Iranologica Europaea , and has attended many meetings in its periodical conferences in different universities and cultural centers all over the world.He is also the chief editor of...

. Its aim is publishing scholarly articles about Persian history, art, philosophy, literature, culture, and Iranology

Iranian Studies

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. Since September 1999, Bukhara has published 50 issues, including some special issues about great world authors, such as Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...

, Günter Grass

Günter Grass

Günter Wilhelm Grass is a Nobel Prize-winning German author, poet, playwright, sculptor and artist.He was born in the Free City of Danzig...

, Osip Mandelstam

Osip Mandelstam

Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam was a Russian poet and essayist who lived in Russia during and after its revolution and the rise of the Soviet Union. He was one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school of poets...

, Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco Knight Grand Cross is an Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose , an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory...

 and Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century....

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Ali Dehbashi was the editor of the monthly magazine, “KELK”, a prominent literary, cultural and Iranology publication with a considerable number of readers, mostly Iranian university professors and world Iranologists. Ninety four issues of the magazine comprising more than twenty thousand pages have been published with contributors including Shafiee Kadkani, Abdol Hossein Zarinkoob, Ahamd Mahdavi Damaghani, Saeed Hamidian, Jalal Khaleghi Motlagh, Ali Ravaghi, Fereidon Moshiri, Ghamar Aryan, Ezatollah Fouldvand, etc.

Bukhara's official representative/distributor in North America

North America

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 is Toronto

Toronto

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 based weekly publication, Salam Toronto

Salam Toronto

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