Book shopping in Iran
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Book City Niyavaran Store
For English-language books, the Book City chain is your best option. Most top-end hotels also sell books (mainly pictorials) about Iran, as do the National Museum of Iran and Sa'd Abad Museum Complex. Some people like this store even more than the Book City Hafez store, though the fun police have closed the attached café.
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Friday Book Market
The Friday book market is good for English-language magazines including the Economist (IR10,000). Blind peddlers outside the Haram near Falakeh Ab sell excellent city maps (IR6000).
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Jahanelm Institute
Magazines ranging from the Economist to Vogue. It’s on the floor below ground level in a large arcade with red-painted trim.
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Mahtab Passaj
Several bookshops stock maps, dictionaries and the odd English book, notably those in Mahtab Passaj.
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Bookshops
Bookshops in the complex opposite the Abbasi Hotel also sell a few English-language books on Iran.
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Di Rouz Em Rouz Ancien Livres
A good collection of old books in English, French, German and Italian. Some rare works on Iran.
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Forouzesh Publications
Sells some English-language books, guides, dictionaries and a good map of Iran (IR10,000).
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Persepolis Bookshop
Opposite the new Shahreraz Hotel, a good range of pictorials and postcards.
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Barg Bookshop
Stocks Farsi phrase books and some English-language magazines.
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Aramagh-e Hafez Bookshop
Wide range of Hafez books at tourist prices.
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Gita Shenasi
The undisputed king of Iranian map-making is Gita Shenasi in Tehran, which publishes an impressive array of maps covering all the major towns and cities and some of the mountain ranges. A growing number of its maps are in English, while many others list the names of major streets, suburbs and squares in English, although everything else, including the text and indexes, is in Farsi. Maps are harder to find outside Tehran.
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Book City Hafez Store
The biggest store of the best chain of bookshops. A decent range of fiction and nonfiction in English (mostly on the 3rd floor), and plenty of pictorials on Iran (1st floor).
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