Peace Be Upon Ali Ibn
Musa Al Reza AS
CALL for SMS
Razavi
Literary SMS International Festival
Part of the 9th Imam Reza
(AS) International art Festival
On the auspicious occasion of birth
anniversary of the 8th
glowing star of the sky of Imamat and
Velayat, Hazrate Ali Ibn Musa Al Reza
(AS) and the 10 Day of Dignity, the
General Directorate of Public Relations
and International Affair of Ministry of
Culture and Islamic Guidance is holding
the Razavi Literary SMS International
Festival with the following objectives:
A- Promotion and
spreading of the enlightening Razavi
culture all across the world
B- Promotion of
cultural, art and religious activities
in connection with the manners of the
infallible Imams and specially various
dimensions of the personality of Imam
Reza
C- Identification and
paying respect to creators and producers
of the highest quality of art and
cultural works about the manners of Imam
Reza AS, his personality and Knowledge
and providing assistance for their large
scale publication.
D- Making use of the
various potentials for short literary
writings and works through modern
communications means.
Subject: Razavi Literary SMS
Themes of the Festival
1- Single line poems
and literary phrases on the spiritual
milieu of the holy shrine of Imam Reza
AS.
2- Anecdotes,
imaginaries, fantasies and other
literary formats, both poems and prose.
3- Biography,
historical journey of Imam Reza AS to
Iran, stories and traditions related to
Imam Reza AS by quoting their sources.
Conditions:
1- The text of the
SMS should be a one or half line verse,
magnificent and touching sentence which
is created for the first time.
2- Verses or phrases
published before or awarded in other
festivals will not be accepted in this
festival.
3- The text of the SMS
should be between 25 to150 characters
(without counting the spaces between the
words and the details of the SMS
sender). Texts which do not comply with
the above will not be considered.
4- First and family
name, name of the province and fixed
telephone number and city code should be
given at the end of the SMS.
5- Texts written in
Farsi, English and Arabic are
acceptable.
Judgment:
Juries for evaluation of the sent items are faulty members
of universities and seminaries.
The sent SMS which are found qualified to be considered
in the festival will be evaluated by the
juries and a number of top SMS will be
selected and awarded.
Prizes:
A) At national Level
First, second and third persons will receive a statue,
citation tablet plus 2 full Bahare Azadi
Gold coins.
From rank 4 to 8 will be awarded with statue, citation
tablet and one full Bahare Azadi gold
coin.
From rank 9 t0 14 will be awarded with statue, citation
tablet and half Bahare Azadi gold coin.
B) At international
Level
Those who rank first,
second and third will receive statue
plus citation tablet and 2 full Bahare
Azadi gold coins.
Those participants who
have ranked four and five will be
awarded with statue plus citation tablet
and 1 full Bahare Azadi gold coin.
Time and procedures for taking part in the festival:
1- Interested
individuals can send their SMS based on
the above mentioned conditions from
Apr.21, 2011 up to hour 24:00 Sep. 1,
2011 to telephone Number 100038513 (
code No. 0098 for Iran and 021 for
Tehran) or electronic post
info@farhang.gov,ir.
2- Participants are
required to wait for 24 hours after
sending their SMS to receive
confirmation of successful submission of
their messages. In case they do not
receive such confirmation in due time
they should forward their SMS once more.
3- The closing
ceremony of the festival will take place
on the first half of Iranian month of
Mehr 1390 (first week of October 2011)
in presence of officials,
representatives of the Secretariat and
the winners in Tehran.
Remarks:
- The selected
items will be published as a book and a
copy of it will be sent to participants.
- Postal Address:
Tehran- Baharestan Sq.,
ministry of Culture and Islamic
Guidance, Public Relations directorate
General.
Contact numbers: 44
Fax:
Site Address:
www.farhang.gov.ir
Email:
info@farhang.gov.ir
Department of Public Relations and
international Affairs, Ministry of
Culture and Islamic Guidance
