Persian Academy honors two newspapers
TEHRAN -- The Academy of Persian Language and Literature has lauded the Persian newspapers Shahrvand and Khabar-e Jonub for their observance of the Persian language and literature. The two dailies...
View ArticleFilmmaker Abdorreza Kahani holds workshops in France
TEHRAN -- Iranian director Abdorreza Kahani is holding workshops about his French-language film “On A Le Temps” at several art schools across France. The film, which was also shot in France with a...
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Fans take to streets to mourn for Pashaii
TEHRAN -- Fans of Morteza Pashaii took to the streets in Iranian cities on Friday night to mourn for the 30-year-old Iranian pop star, who died of gastric cancer on Friday morning. Hundreds of his...
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France to honor Iran’s Lili Golestan with Order of Academic Palms
TEHRAN -- The Iranian translator and director of the Golestan Gallery in Tehran, Lili Golestan, will be honored with the Order of Academic Palms by France. She will receive the decoration from...
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Pop singer Morteza Pashaii dies at 30
TEHRAN – Iranian pop singer Morteza Pashaii died of gastric cancer at Tehran’s Bahman Hospital on Friday morning. He was 30. He had occasionally been receiving treatment since December 2013, when he...
View ArticleIranian director to stage play on Sinjar massacre
TEHRAN – The veteran Iranian dramatist and director Qotbeddin Sadeqi plans to stage a play on the Sinjar massacre that the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) carried out in the town in...
View ArticlePersian Academy honors two newspapers
TEHRAN -- The Academy of Persian Language and Literature has lauded the Persian newspapers Shahrvand and Khabar-e Jonub for their observance of the Persian language and literature. The two dailies...
View ArticleFilmmaker Abdorreza Kahani holds workshops in France
TEHRAN -- Iranian director Abdorreza Kahani is holding workshops about his French-language film “On A Le Temps” at several art schools across France. The film, which was also shot in France with a...
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Fans take to streets to mourn for Pashaii
TEHRAN -- Fans of Morteza Pashaii took to the streets in Iranian cities on Friday night to mourn for the 30-year-old Iranian pop star, who died of gastric cancer on Friday morning. Hundreds of his...
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Iranian actor Majid Bahrami dies at 37
TEHRAN -- Iranian actor Majid Bahrami died Saturday night at age 37 after over three years of battling a type of blood cancer at Tehran’s Pars Hospital. Bahrami was acting in the play “Wonder of...
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Majid Majidi to preside over Fajr filmfest jury TEHRAN -- Iranian director Majid Majidi was selected as the president of the jury of the 33rd Fajr International Film Festival, organizers announced on...
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Visitors warmly receive Aidin Aghdashlu retrospective
TEHRAN – A large number of visitors, fans and art lovers queued up to see the paintings of Aidin Aghdashlu at the opening of his exhibition at Tehran’s Asar Gallery on Friday. Visitors lined up for...
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Fans bid farewell to pop singer Morteza Pashaii
TEHRAN -- Fans bid an emotional farewell to pop singer Morteza Pashaii, who died last Friday at 30 after battling cancer, during a funeral procession that began at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on Sunday....
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Fans take to streets to mourn for Pashaii
TEHRAN -- Fans of Morteza Pashaii took to the streets in Iranian cities on Friday night to mourn for the 30-year-old Iranian pop star, who died of gastric cancer on Friday morning. Hundreds of his...
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Iranian actor Majid Bahrami dies at 37
TEHRAN -- Iranian actor Majid Bahrami died Saturday night at age 37 after over three years of battling a type of blood cancer at Tehran’s Pars Hospital. Bahrami was acting in the play “Wonder of...
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Art news in brief
Majid Majidi to preside over Fajr filmfest jury TEHRAN -- Iranian director Majid Majidi was selected as the president of the jury of the 33rd Fajr International Film Festival, organizers announced on...
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Visitors warmly receive Aidin Aghdashlu retrospective
TEHRAN – A large number of visitors, fans and art lovers queued up to see the paintings of Aidin Aghdashlu at the opening of his exhibition at Tehran’s Asar Gallery on Friday. Visitors lined up for...
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Fans bid farewell to pop singer Morteza Pashaii
TEHRAN -- Fans bid an emotional farewell to pop singer Morteza Pashaii, who died last Friday at 30 after battling cancer, during a funeral procession that began at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on Sunday....
View ArticleTurkish, Iranian cineastes to team up for joint production
TEHRAN – A number of Iranian and Turkish cineastes will team up to make a 24-episode series entitled “Ayatay” about a love story set in Iran’s Azarbaijan region during World War I. Jalil Asghari, the...
View ArticleTajik cultural delegation visiting Iran
TEHRAN – A cultural delegation from Tajikistan’s Khujand arrived in Iran on Monday to visit Iran. The group led by Tajik poet Farzaneh Khojandi visited the deputy director of Iran’s Cultural...
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