For the visitors to the Frankfurt Book Fair, there will be several opportunities to visit events organized by Shahrazad - stories for life. Among these, on Wednesday October 14, comes "Unpleasant Truths: Dressing up reality - media policy and counter-information". Many attempts are made worldwide to influence the view of events, to manipulate the media, to falsify or suppress news. Iran is just one example. Journalism and foreign cultural policy operate within this conflictive arena - what scope for action do they still have? How can counterbalance be achieved and to what ends? With: Amir Hassan Cheheltan (author, Iran/currently Berlin), Mahmud Doulatabadi (author, Iran), Christiane Hoffmann (FAZ, Frankfurt am Main), Jamsheed Faroughi (Deutsche Welle, Cologne). The event is chaired by Ulrich Grothus (DAAD, Bonn).