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Show Intercultural Center Gains 3,000 Volumes Dr. Khosrow Mostofi, associate professor of political science and assistant director of the Middle East Center at the University of Utah, has returned from a year of research under a Fullbright Grant in Turkey and Tehran, Iran. DR. MOSTOFI was able to procure pro-cure over 3,000 volumes of Persian Per-sian books and periodicals for the Intercultural Library. Many publications publi-cations are so rare that they are not even in existence in libraries in Tehran. In fact, officials of the University of Tehran have requested request-ed microfilm copies of some of the books, Dr. Mostofi stated. Among the 3,000 volumes are 75 complete sets of Persian periodicals, periodi-cals, including 60 years of Iranian parliamentary debate. ANOTHER NEW addition to the Intercultural Library is Ettela'at, the most influential daily newspaper news-paper in Iran. The University was able to purchase every issue of the paper published in the last 40 years over 12,000 copies, bound in 150 volumes. Dr. Mostofi, himself a native Iranian, found Iranians extremely cooperative in helping the University Univer-sity acquire the new Persian books. He said the reputation of the University's Uni-versity's successful Persian program pro-gram was a key factor in the donation do-nation of over 3,000 volumes. |