“What is Iran today?” With this deceptively simple question, the late President Anwar Sadat offered one of the earliest and most prescient readings of post-revolutionary Iran—not as a state that merely changed its political system, but as one that entered a fundamentally different trajectory.
President Anwar
At six o’clock on Friday evening, January 9, 2026, a new virtual session will convene as part of the Creative Encounters on the Silk Road series, opening the new year with an open dialogue on children’s and young adult literature—one of the literary fields most deeply connected to shaping awareness and nurturing imagination.
The year 2025 was rich in movement, travel, and multi-directional cultural work—a year in which geography intersected with creativity, and personal experience converged with public cultural action, grounded in a firm belief in the role of the word, art, and knowledge in building bridges among peoples.
Major Journeys of the Year:
International Press Breakfast in Moscow Explores the Role of Journalism in a Changing World “Journalist in a Changing World: How the Media Shape the Future”
19 November 2025 · Moscow · Assembly Hall of the World Peoples’ Assembly: The World Peoples’ Assembly hosted an International Press Breakfast
A month ago, on Wednesday, September 3, 2025, the Silk Road Literature Series opened a new chapter in its global journey with the Three Continents Creative Meeting — a luminous hour of shared imagination that spanned time zones and tongues. Six authors from three continents gathered online, their voices woven together by the Egyptian
