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TEHRAN -- Iranian painter and sculptor Yasmin Sinaii is convinced that the workshop “Games of Colors” now underway at the Iranian Artists Forum gives people a chance to learn art in its correct form.

 

The workshops have been organized by the Damonfar Company, the Iranian representative of France’s Pebeo and Germany’s Faber Castell, two companies that manufacture art materials.

 

“These workshops named ‘Games of Colors’ provide an opportunity for children and young adults to experience new methods of painting,” Sinaii said in a press release on Sunday.

 

Several pavilions have been set up in the courtyard of the forum, three of which are dedicated to children. “This year is the 250th anniversary of the establishment of Faber Castell. Therefore each day, a new issue related to nature is selected for children to paint, which is later merged with the number 250, the results of which have been amazing so far,” she added. 

 

“The fourth pavilion is dedicated to mothers for improving their manual dexterity. This has been the most successful part and gives mothers a chance to learn new things while their children are busy in other workshops.

 

“They learn how to make decorative items with simple items that are of course cheap and available, and mothers attend eagerly,” she added.

 

The program, which has been underway since July 19, will be running until August 18.

 

The fifth pavilion introduces France’s Pebeo and Canson, a French manufacturer of fine art paper and related products.

 

Damonfar launched the Damonfar Visual Arts Festival in 2006 to provide the facilities for young Iranian artistic talent. The festival is dedicated to artists less than 25 years of age.

 

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TEHRAN -- Valiollah Torabi Sefidabi, known as Morshed Torabi, one of the few masters of naqqali, a traditional form of dramatic storytelling in Iran, has died of liver cancer at Tehran’s Madaen Hospital on Saturday afternoon. He was 77 years old.

 

Torabi was born in the village of Sefidab near the town of Tafresh in Central Province in 1936. His family moved to Tehran when he was a child. He learned to read and write at a maktab, a kind of traditional Iranian school which was usually managed by Muslim clerics.

 

His father was a performer of tazieh, an Iranian passion play, so he began his career in this field during childhood. However, he left this career path at 20 and started to learn traditional martial arts, including fencing, chub-bazi, lance throwing and wrestling.

 

He got permission from his father also to learn naqqali from Morshed Ruhollah Shoqi at that time. He acquired all the subtleties of the art over five years and began a career in naqqali at a large teahouse in 1961.

 

He had his own style in performing the movements and the natural sound effects, which are created by the actor using the mouth in naqqali.

 

Morshed Torabi performed at many Iranian and international events, and he was honored at some of them.

 

He had collaborated with Davud Fat’halibeigi, an expert on Iranian traditional performing arts, in some TV and radio programs over past few years.   

 

Naqqali was registered on UNESCO’s List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding in November 2011.

 

It has long played an important role in society from the courts to the villages. 

 

The performer – naqqal or morshed – recounts stories in verse or prose accompanied by gestures and movements, and sometimes, instrumental music and painted scrolls.

 

Naqqali requires considerable talent, a retentive memory and the ability to improvise with skill to captivate an audience. 

 

Naqqals wear traditional Iranian costumes, but may also put on ancient helmets or armored jackets during performances to help recreate battle scenes.

 

Naqqali was formerly performed in coffeehouses, tents of nomads, houses, and historical venues such as ancient caravansaries. 

 

However, a decline in the popularity of coffeehouses combined with new forms of entertainment has resulted in diminishing interest in naqqali performance.

 

In addition, the aging of master performers and the decreasing popularity among the younger generations have caused a steep drop in the number of skilled naqqals, threatening the survival of this dramatic art.

 

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New Iranian films premiere to liven up theaters for Id al-Fitr

August 3, 2013, 7:54 am

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TEHRAN -- Several films have premiered in Iranian theaters a week early to better brighten up Id al-Fitr, the celebration marking the end of the month of Ramadan. 

 

“The Vestibule” by Behruz Shoeibi, “Hush… Girls Don’t Scream” by Puran Derakhshandeh, “The Fourth Child” by Vahid Musaian and “The Interchange” are among the new movies, Iran’s Screening Council said in a press release on Saturday.

 

“Hush… Girls Don’t Scream” is Derakhshandeh’s social drama on the problems of Iranian girls.

 

Starring Shahab Hosseini, Merila Zarei, Jamshid Hashempur, Hadi Marzban and Babak Hamidian, the film shared a Crystal Simorgh for Audience Favorite Film at the 31st Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran in February.

 

“The Fourth Child” tells the story of an Iranian actress who gives up cinema to discover a new world through photography of the famine and war in Somalia. Mehdi Hashemi, Mahtab Kermati and Hamed Behdad star in the film.

 

“The Vestibule” tells the story of a single mother named Shiva who makes her best efforts to run the family but the arrival of a letter changes her life. It is actor Shoeibi’s directorial debut and brought Hanieh Tavassoli a Crystal Simorgh for best actress at the 31st Fajr International Film Festival last year.

 

The comedy “The Interchange” is about a naive person who is mistakenly replaced by a war commander. Akbar Abdi, Javad Ezzati, Samaneh Pakdel, Mehran Ghafurian and Giti Qasemi are among the actors.

 

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Spanish festival honors Iranian director Dariush Ghazbani

August 3, 2013, 7:53 am

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TEHRAN – Iranian filmmaker Dariush Ghazbani has won a best director award at the 8th Mas Sorrer International Short Film Festival in Barcelona, Spain.

 

On July 28, he received the prize for “Hannaneh”, his latest work on the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, the Persian service of MNA reported on Saturday.

 

A production of the Sacred Defense Cinema Association, “Hannaneh” tells the story of Abbas and Zainab, an Iranian couple, which find a pregnant woman and her daughter on their way fleeing from Khorramshahr after Iraqi forces attacked the southern Iranian city. 

 

Ghazbani is a young filmmaker from the southern city of Bushehr that has made several short films.

 

“The Tree” directed by Hamed Siami was another Iranian entry to the festival. 

 

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“Wonder of Creatures” to go on stage in Netherlands

August 4, 2013, 7:56 am

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TEHRAN -- The Max Theater Troupe, which is led by Iranian director Reza Servati, will stage “Wonder of Creatures” at Korzo Hall in the Hague, Netherlands on November 17.

 

“We will begin rehearsing for the performance a month before leaving Iran to go to the country,” Servati told the Persian service of ISNA.

 

The troupe performed the play, which is about human beings who have been transformed by unknown powers, at the Iranshahr Theater Complex in Tehran in February and March 2011.

  

Servati said that some alterations will be made to the Hague performance.  

 

Morteza Esmaeil-Kashi, Pantea Panahiha, Majid Bahrami, Ali Baqeri, Shima Mirhamidi, Bijan Seraji, Asghar Piran, Farzin Nobarani and Sina Razani are the members of the troupe.

 

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Azeri voice actors dub Iranian TV series “In the Wind’s Eye”

August 4, 2013, 7:56 am

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TEHRAN – A team of Azeri voice actors from the Republic of Azerbaijan has recently finished dubbing the Iranian TV series “In the Wind’s Eye” into Azeri to be broadcast on the Azeri TV section of Iran’s Sahar Universal Network.

 

The team was managed by Suleyman Farzaliyev, the head of the Central Radio Television Broadcasting Branch in Baku, the Persian service of MNA reported on Sunday.

 

“In the Wind’s Eye” by director Masud Jafari Jozani depicts the contemporary history of Iran through events in the lives of a traditional Iranian family. The period covered extends from the revolutionary movement of early twentieth century, with its national hero Mirza Kuchak Khan, to the liberation of Khorramshahr during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.

 

The series has been translated into the Azeri language by Ruhengiz Farzaliyev, Suleyman Farzaliyev, and Narmin Ahmedova.

 

Serdar Rustamov, Bayram Muhammedov, Ramil Zeynalov, Almaz Amanova, Tahmina Mammadova, Almaz Mustafayeva, and Parviz Baqirov are other members of the team of voice actors.

 

In addition, the team has dubbed another Iranian TV series named “It Might Happen to You Too” into Azeri to be broadcast from the Azeri TV section of Iran’s Sahar Universal Network in the near future.

 

Dubbing Iranian religious historical TV series of “Mokhtarnameh” and “Prophet Joseph” are among other credits of this team of voice actors.

 

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“Games of Colors” helps people learn art in its correct form: Yasmin Sinaii

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TEHRAN -- Iranian painter and sculptor Yasmin Sinaii is convinced that the workshop “Games of Colors” now underway at the Iranian Artists Forum gives people a chance to learn art in its correct form.

 

The workshops have been organized by the Damonfar Company, the Iranian representative of France’s Pebeo and Germany’s Faber Castell, two companies that manufacture art materials.

 

“These workshops named ‘Games of Colors’ provide an opportunity for children and young adults to experience new methods of painting,” Sinaii said in a press release on Sunday.

 

Several pavilions have been set up in the courtyard of the forum, three of which are dedicated to children. “This year is the 250th anniversary of the establishment of Faber Castell. Therefore each day, a new issue related to nature is selected for children to paint, which is later merged with the number 250, the results of which have been amazing so far,” she added. 

 

“The fourth pavilion is dedicated to mothers for improving their manual dexterity. This has been the most successful part and gives mothers a chance to learn new things while their children are busy in other workshops.

 

“They learn how to make decorative items with simple items that are of course cheap and available, and mothers attend eagerly,” she added.

 

The program, which has been underway since July 19, will be running until August 18.

 

The fifth pavilion introduces France’s Pebeo and Canson, a French manufacturer of fine art paper and related products.

 

Damonfar launched the Damonfar Visual Arts Festival in 2006 to provide the facilities for young Iranian artistic talent. The festival is dedicated to artists less than 25 years of age.

 

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TEHRAN -- Valiollah Torabi Sefidabi, known as Morshed Torabi, one of the few masters of naqqali, a traditional form of dramatic storytelling in Iran, has died of liver cancer at Tehran’s Madaen Hospital on Saturday afternoon. He was 77 years old.

 

Torabi was born in the village of Sefidab near the town of Tafresh in Central Province in 1936. His family moved to Tehran when he was a child. He learned to read and write at a maktab, a kind of traditional Iranian school which was usually managed by Muslim clerics.

 

His father was a performer of tazieh, an Iranian passion play, so he began his career in this field during childhood. However, he left this career path at 20 and started to learn traditional martial arts, including fencing, chub-bazi, lance throwing and wrestling.

 

He got permission from his father also to learn naqqali from Morshed Ruhollah Shoqi at that time. He acquired all the subtleties of the art over five years and began a career in naqqali at a large teahouse in 1961.

 

He had his own style in performing the movements and the natural sound effects, which are created by the actor using the mouth in naqqali.

 

Morshed Torabi performed at many Iranian and international events, and he was honored at some of them.

 

He had collaborated with Davud Fat’halibeigi, an expert on Iranian traditional performing arts, in some TV and radio programs over past few years.   

 

Naqqali was registered on UNESCO’s List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding in November 2011.

 

It has long played an important role in society from the courts to the villages. 

 

The performer – naqqal or morshed – recounts stories in verse or prose accompanied by gestures and movements, and sometimes, instrumental music and painted scrolls.

 

Naqqali requires considerable talent, a retentive memory and the ability to improvise with skill to captivate an audience. 

 

Naqqals wear traditional Iranian costumes, but may also put on ancient helmets or armored jackets during performances to help recreate battle scenes.

 

Naqqali was formerly performed in coffeehouses, tents of nomads, houses, and historical venues such as ancient caravansaries. 

 

However, a decline in the popularity of coffeehouses combined with new forms of entertainment has resulted in diminishing interest in naqqali performance.

 

In addition, the aging of master performers and the decreasing popularity among the younger generations have caused a steep drop in the number of skilled naqqals, threatening the survival of this dramatic art.

 

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Tehran Intl. Holy Quran Exhibition wraps up

August 5, 2013, 6:52 am

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TEHRAN – The 21st edition of the International Holy Quran Exhibition concluded on Sunday during a ceremony attended by Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Mohammad Hosseini and a group of cultural figures.

 

Winners of the Quran competition in the academic section arranged by organizers during the exhibit as well as organizers of the top pavilions were honored at the closing ceremony, Deputy Culture Minister for Quranic Affairs Hojjatoleslam Hamid Mohammadi said in a press release on Monday.

 

Over 200 Iranian and 50 international publication organizations displayed their products at the exhibit, Mohammadi said.

 

He added that a great number of copies of the Holy Quran that were brought by visitors for restoration had their renovation completed and were returned during the exhibit, he said.

 

Over 50,000 volumes with the central theme of Quran were also distributed to visitors during the exhibit.

 

The exhibit ran from July 6 to August 4 at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Mosalla.

 

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Iranian scholar writes book on Hafez and Goethe

August 5, 2013, 8:17 am

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TEHRAN -- Germany-based Iranian author Mahmud Falaki has authored a book in German on Iranian poet Hafez and German poet Goethe.

 

Entitled “Hafez and Goethe: Mutual Perception and Misunderstanding in German and Iranian Culture”, the book will be published by Schiller Verlag in September in Berlin.

 

The book sheds light on Goethe’s reasons for writing “The Western-Eastern Divan”, Falaki told the Persian service of ISNA on Monday.

 

“The Western-Eastern Divan” is originally the title of an 1819 collection of poems in a quasi-Persian style by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, who lived in Weimar and is revered as Germany’s greatest poet, dramatist and novelist.

 

Falaki said that book also pointed to the German translation of the Divan of Hafez by Joseph v. Hammer Purgstall, which was used by Goethe.

 

“The German translation is not very precise and causes some problems in the perception of Hafez’s poetry,” he said.

 

Falaki’s book also explains how Goethe was interested in Eastern culture and civilization.

 

Inspired by the Divan of Hafez (c. 1325-1389), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) blends his own character with that of the Persian poet, who was well acquainted with Quranic and theological subjects.

 

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Pieces by John Williams, Ennio Morricone to highlight Tehran Vocal Ensemble repertoire

August 5, 2013, 8:17 am

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TEHRAN -- The Tehran Vocal Ensemble plans to perform a repertoire of popular pieces by American composer John Williams and Italian musician Ennio Morricone in its upcoming concert in September.

 

The musical selections are from among the works they composed for numerous films, conductor Milad Omranlu told the Persian service of MNA on Monday.

 

However, he did not refer to the titles of the pieces.

 

Williams and Morricone are considered to be two of the greatest film composers of all time.

 

“The repertoire will also comprise pieces by Hossein Alizadeh and other Iranian composers,” Omranlu stated.

 

He said that the concert will be held at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall and the exact date of the performance would be announced soon.

 

The pieces will be recorded on the second album of ensemble, which is scheduled to be released by the Neydavud Studio in September.

 

“Special melodies have been used in the structure of the pieces of this album, which I think will be more successful than our previous album,” Omranlu said.

 

The ensemble’s debut album “Vocapella” was released in 2011.

 

The Tehran Vocal Ensemble has been honored at several prestigious events worldwide.

 

The World Choir Games, which were held China in July 2010, honored the ensemble with a silver medal in the Folklore section and a bronze medal in the Mixed Chamber Choirs section.

 

The group won a gold medal at the Mixed Chamber Choirs section and a silver medal at the Folklore section of the 2nd Asian Choir Games in South Korea in July 2009.

 

In September 2009, the ensemble received a gold medal in the Mixed Choir Category of the 11th International Folksong Choir Festival in Barcelona.

 

In addition, it won a Golden Diploma from Italy’s 8th International Choir Competition and Festival of Jazz, Gospel, Pop and Secular and Sacred Music in October 2009.

 

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“Nowhere, Nobody” to raise funds for cancer children

August 5, 2013, 8:17 am

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TEHRAN – Box office receipts from the first screening of “Nowhere, Nobody” at Tehran’s Esteqlal Cinema will be donated to the Behnam Daheshpur Charity Organization, which is dedicated to children with cancer, investors announced on Monday.

 

Director Ebrahim Sheibani and the main members of the cast are scheduled to attend the screening, which will be held tonight at 9:30.

 

The film tells the story of different people who are connected to each other through calamities that hit their lives. 

 

Reza Kianian, Saber Abar, Mohammadreza Fortutan, Babak Karimi, Mahnaz Afshar and Bahareh Kian-Afshar are the main members of the cast.

 

The Cultural and Artistic Organization of the Tehran Municipality, and Sorinet Holding Group provided the financial support for making the film.

 

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Iranian scholar to introduce Persian forms of short poems to English readers

August 6, 2013, 7:57 am

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TEHRAN -- The Iranian poet and translator Alireza Abiz is writing a book in English about Persian forms of short poetry.

 

“I have tried to introduce Persian forms of short poetry through translating some examples of these works in English over the past few years,” he told the Persian service of ISNA on Tuesday.

 

The book entitled “The Persian Forms of Short Poetry” will also contain English translations of a selection of short poems by several Iranian poets.

 

Abiz, a Ph.D. student in Creative Writing (poetry) at the Newcastle University, has previously translated poems by by Faryad Shiri, Rasul Yunan and Mansur Momeni in a collection.

 

Scottish poet W. N. Herbert has edited the collection, which will be published in 2014, he said.

 

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Iranian animators working on stories about Molla Nasreddin

August 6, 2013, 8:07 am

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TEHRAN -- A group of Iranian animators is working on stories about Molla Nasreddin, a witty and sometimes wise personality in Persian and Middle Eastern folktales, in a 21-episode series.

 

The screenplay has been written by Jamal Rahmati, who is also directing the animation project entitled “The Adventures of Molla Nasreddin”, producer Ali Mo’allen said in a press release on Tuesday.

 

“Iranian stories are one of the strong points of the Orient,” Mo’allen said and added, “Despite his fame in many countries including Turkey, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan and even Bulgaria, Molla Nasreddin has rarely been the subject of a film.”

 

He said that the production of the series has been underway since 2012 and will conclude in October 2013.

 

Esfandiar Ahmadieh (1928-2012), who is considered the father of Iranian animation, made his debut with “Molla Nasreddin” based on a story about this character.

 

Encyclopaedia Iranica refers to Molla Nasreddin as “a character who appears in thousands of stories, always witty, sometimes wise, even philosophic, sometimes the instigator of practical jokes on others and often a fool or the butt of a joke.”

 

“Stories relating to Molla Nasreddin or Nasr-al-Din Hoca (as he is called in Turkey) are generally humorous, but in the subtle humor there is always a lesson to be learned. These stories involve people and incidents in all walks of life, including kings, beggars, politicians, clerics, etc.”

 

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Ivan Bunin to be commemorated at Tehran institute

August 6, 2013, 8:08 am

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TEHRAN – The 60th anniversary of the passing of Russian author Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin will be commemorated during a ceremony at Tehran’s Central Book City on December 10.

 

The ceremony has been organized in a collaborative effort by the institute and Russia’s Solzhenitsyn Foundation, the institute reported in a press release on Tuesday.

 

Two literati of the foundation are scheduled to deliver speeches during the event. The names of the literati were not mentioned in the report. 

 

Several documentary films about Bunin will go on screen during the event as well.

 

Bunin (1870-1953) was the first Russian writer to win a Nobel Prize for Literature. 

 

He was noted for the strict artistry with which he carried on the classical Russian traditions in the writing of prose and poetry. The texture of his poems and stories, sometimes referred to as “Bunin brocade”, is considered to be one of the richest in the language.

 

He is best known for his short novels “The Village” (1910) and “Dry Valley” (1912), his autobiographical novel “The Life of Arseniev” (1933, 1939), the book of short stories “Dark Avenues” (1946) and his 1917–1918 diary “Cursed Days” (1926).

 

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Children’s authors rewriting Persian classical works

August 6, 2013, 8:08 am

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TEHRAN -- A group of Iranian children’s authors has begun rewriting masterpieces of Persian classical literature to simplify the works for publication in a collection entitled “The Iranian Sweet Stories”.

 

Stories from seven masterpieces of Persian classical literature have been selected for the collection, which will comprise 30 books, coordinator Hossein Fattahi said in a press release on Tuesday.

 

Nine of the books have been published by Sureh-Mehr, whose main focus is on literary works on the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.

 

Authors Sepideh Khalili, Majid Mollamohammadi, Mohammadreza Shams, Mojgan Sheikhi, Zahra Heidari, Farhad Hassanzadeh, Mehr Mahuti and Jafar Ebrahimi are collaborating on the collection, said Fattahi, who is also rewriting a portion of the work. 

 

Qabusnameh, written by Zeyarid ruler Qabus ibn Voshmagir (reigned 978–1012) is one of the works. It contains the advice of a father to his son, Gilan Shah, on how to run a country.

 

Jami’s most famous collection of poetry Haft Awrang (“The Seven Thrones,” or “Ursa Major”), which is a seven-part compendium, is another work of the collection.

 

Stories from Sadi’s magnum opus Gulistan (“The Rose Garden”) have been selected for the collection.

 

Among the highlights are also Rumi’s Masnavi-e Manavi, Marzban Pur-Rostam’s Marzban-nameh and Muhammad Aufi’s

Jawami ul-Hikayat wa Lawami ul-Riwayat.

 

They have also chosen stories from Kalilah and Dimnah, a book of animal fables, and The Thousand and One Nights, a collection of Oriental stories.

 

“Children need to be familiarized with their cultural roots, and the great poets and writers of their own country,” Fattahi said.

 

“The group of authors should simplify the stories in a way that the children understand the works without having to look up words in the dictionary,” he added.

 

Two books of the collection containing stories from the Haft Awrang and the Gulistan were released early last week.

 

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Araz’s new album recorded in three countries

August 12, 2013, 8:06 am

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TEHRAN – Araz, an Iranian Azeri band, has recorded its new album in Iran, the Republic of Azerbaijan and Turkey, singer and composer Rahim Shahriari announced on Monday. 

 

Entitled “Sanagora” (“For You”), the album will be released by the Ravi Nakisa Company in the near future, he said in a press release published by the Iran Music Association. 

 

The album contains eleven songs by Iranian poets Mohammad Dastpish and Nasir Payegozar, Azeri poet Nusrat Kasamanli and a Turkish poet.

  

The songs, which have been composed Gholamreza Sadeqi, Nima Sarrafi and Shahriari, are all in folk pop genre.

 

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Persian translation of “World Mythology” completed

August 12, 2013, 8:08 am

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TEHRAN -- A Persian translation of American writer William G. Doty’s “World Mythology” has recently been completed. 

 

Ostureh is scheduled to publish the book, which was translated into Persian by Abolqasem Esmaeilpur, Persian news agencies reported on Monday.

 

“World Mythology” covers the principal mythologies from Greece and Rome, to Norse Myths, the gods of Egypt, China and India. The expert contributors have provided authoritative and detailed texts in this book, making it accessible to everyone, from novice to expert.

 

Doty is a prolific writer, translator, and editor who has published more than twenty books and seventy essays in a wide range of journals on topics including religious studies, anthropology, psychology, classics, and art criticism.

 

His best known books include “Mythography: The Study of Myths and Rituals”, “Myths of Masculinity” and “Myths: A Handbook”.

 

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Tehran Computer Game Festival to kick off today

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TEHRAN – The third edition of the Tehran Computer Game Festival will open today at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Mosalla.

 

Organized by the National Foundation for Computer Games (NFCG) , fifteen Iranian universities will be offering their latest products in different sections, the NFCG announced in a press release on Monday.

 

A collection of computer games developed by foreign companies and verified by NFCG will also be on display.

 

At one of the pavilions, the computer games ratings model for Iran (ESRA), families receive help in familiarizing themselves with games and how to obtain appropriate games for their children.

 

A new section named “Window” has been established this year to showcase different procedures for Iranian game productions over the past two decades. 

 

Other sections include a world without games, as well as independent game producers.

 

Over 30 workshops along with a shop offering series of computer games will be set up on the side sections of the festival, which will be running until August 17.

 

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Iranian association plans to revamp Fajr Intl. Music Festival

August 12, 2013, 8:10 am

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TEHRAN – The Iran Music Association plans to revamp the Fajr International Music Festival, which is Iran’s most important music event. 

 

“In line with this plan, we have entered into agreements with a number of prominent foreign music bands, and are looking for major developments to occur in the international section of this year’s festival in comparison with previous editions,” the managing director of the association, Ali Torabi, told the Persian service of ISNA on Monday.

 

However, no names were mentioned for the foreign bands.

 

The festival is one of the Fajr series of events that are usually organized in February of every year in Tehran to celebrate the anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution. 

 

The association is one of the main organizers of the festival. 

 

“We also plan to revive the children’s section, which was excluded from the festival last year due some financial problems faced by the organizers,” Torabi said.

 

He asked Iranian musicians to send their submissions to this section. 

 

MMS/YAW

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