Zohreh Ghaeni
Zohreh Ghaeni (born in January 1954, Tehran) is a Children’s literature expert, translator, lecturer, researcher and historian. She is the co-writer of the 10-volume research book on the History of Children’s Literature in Iran"." She is the head of the Read with Me project. She also served as the IBBY Executive committee member from 2016 to 2020. Early life and education. Born in Tehran, graduated "School Sanitation and Hygiene Education" at the college of Medical Sciences in Tehran. She worked as a teacher in a village, North of Iran. Served as chief editor of  Young adult magazine. she studied Librarianship and information science (M.A) at Open University in Tehran. Her dissertation topic is “The responses of 4-6 year-old Iranian children to Picture books”. She researched “The New Illustrations of Old Folktales” when accepted for fellowship program at the International Institute for Children’s Literature, Osaka, and April 1997. In 2000, she was accepted for fellowship program at “International Jugendbiblithek” München where she researched “The intercultural Communication in English and German Picture Books”. As a lecturer she held workshops on “The Children’s Literature History and Childhood studies in Iran” and also ”The  Children’s Book Illustration”  at Children’s Book Council of Iran (CBCI) (The national section of IBBY) for a long time. Career. Zohreh Ghaeni is the Director of the Institute for the Research on the History of Children’s Literature in Iran, which she co-founded. She was an IBBY Executive committee member from 2016 to 2020. In 2010, she founded Read with Me, a reading promotion program in Iran for children in deprived areas of the country and children in crisis. She is also heading the historical childhood studies in Iran. She has been a member of the International  Jury of the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002 and 2004, the Jury president of Hans Christian Andersen Awards in 2008 and 2010, a member of the International Jury of the CineKid film festival, Amsterdam, Holland, in October 2005; She has also been a member of the International Jury of the Nami Island International Picture Book Illustration Concours, South Korea, in 2013, 2015 & 2017.