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The Iranian Burnt Books Foundation was inaugurated in 2004 under the patronship of the Else Lasker-Schüler Gesellschaft. The Iranian Burnt Books Foundation operates worldwide through a powerful investigation network of over hundred active contact points with the aim at reviving burnt/banned books and their authors, who have paid with their lives as victims of political and social supression and aggression in Iran.

After collection and archiving of the works as well as authentification of the biographies, the complete works get published as books and ebooks - compliance with international copyright rules ensured. A powerful electronic distrubtion network inside and outside of Iran enables the Iranian Burnt Books Foundation to proactively "push" the ebooks cross over boarders to readers in Iran and worldwide free of charge.

By this way the works are both archived and secured in a static archive as well as distributed to readers worldwide, disabling the censorship capacities of the Iranian government and other regimes.

The first project of the Iranian Burnt Books Foundation was completed early 2006 by collecting and archiving the work of the young poetess Nadja Anjoman, killed in a family conflict in Herat late 2005.

The second project was completed in summer 2006 by publishing the book of poetry of Tahiri Quratto´l Ain, a Bahai poetess and clerical feminist, who has been killed mid 19th century. The collection of her work, spread around the globe, took around two years, which finally resulted in a revival of her banned work after about one and a half centuries.

The third project was the revival of the complete works of Said Soltanpour, an Iranian poet and writer, a key figure of the Iranian modern literature movement, who has been imprisoned and killed few years after the Iranian revolution by the fascist government of the Islamic Republic of Iran.