Pascal Luban says Iranian games have made good progress
TEHRAN – French-based game designer Pascal Luban said that the game designing industry in Iran is young but has made good progress in a short period of time. Luban made the comments in an...
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Abbas Kiarostami to hold workshops in Barcelona
TEHRAN – World-renowned Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami will hold a series of workshops in Barcelona during March. Entitled “Filming in Barcelona with Abbas Kiarostami”, the workshops will be held...
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Leather bearing drawings discovered in Burnt City
TEHRAN -- A piece of leather bearing drawings has been discovered in the 5200-year-old Burnt City in southeastern Iran. A team of archaeologists led by Professor Seyyed Mansur Sajjadi has unearthed...
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Photos on Syrian civil war on display in Tehran exhibit
TEHRAN – Iranian photographer Hassan Qaedi is displaying his works on the Syrian civil war in an exhibition at the Iranian Artists Forum in Tehran. The exhibition is part of the third edition of...
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Ahmad Shamlu’s U.S. travelogue becomes bestseller
TEHRAN – All 3300 copies of Ahmad Shamlu’s “A Diary of the Much Blessed Royal Trip to the Untidied States of Americ” were sold out at the Iranian bookstores about three weeks after its publication....
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Movies from Iran, Iraq, Turkey share best film award at Turkish festival TEHRAN – Iranian director Teimur Ghaderi’s “Pomegranate Is the Fruit of Paradise”, Iraqi director Tofigh Amani’s “Ants...
View ArticleShahram Nazeri honors Alim Qasimov
TEHRAN -- Iranian singer Shahram Nazeri honored the renowned Azerbaijani vocalist, Alim Qasimov with an Iranian flag on the second night of his performance at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on Monday....
View ArticleOIC official visits National Library and Archives of Iran
TEHRAN -- The secretary general of the Parliamentary Union of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Member States, Mahmud Erol Kilic, visited the National Library and Archives of Iran (NLAI) in...
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Filmmaker asks Iranian officials to watch “A Few Cubic Meters of Love”
TEHRAN -- Filmmaker Nader Talebzadeh has asked Iranian officials to watch “A Few Cubic Meters of Love”, a drama on migration and love directed and produced by Afghan brothers Jamshid Mahmudi and Navid...
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Filmmaker asks Iranian officials to watch “A Few Cubic Meters of Love”
TEHRAN -- Filmmaker Nader Talebzadeh has asked Iranian officials to watch “A Few Cubic Meters of Love”, a drama on migration and love directed and produced by Afghan brothers Jamshid Mahmudi and Navid...
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Shahdad Rohani perform concerts in Tehran Prominent Iranian composer and conductor Shahdad Rohani will perform concerts with an orchestra composed of musicians from the Tehran Symphony Orchestra in...
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Iran asks West not let Islamic sanctities be insulted
TEHRAN -- The spokesman of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Hossein Nushabadi, has asked the West to stop those who are insulting the Prophet Muhammad (S) He made the remarks...
View Article“Timeloss” to go on stage in U.S.
TEHRAN - The Mehr Theater Group led by Iranian director and writer Amir-Reza Kuhestani will perform “Timeloss” in the American cities of New York and Los Angeles. “Timeloss”, a fiery story about...
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“Track 143” published in Tehran
TEHRAN – Persian war novel “Track 143”, based on which a film of the same title was produced last year, was unveiled at Tehran’s Andisheh Cultural Center on Tuesday. Published by Sureh-Mehr...
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Exhibition of Persian calligraphy underway in Moscow TEHRAN – Works by Iranian calligraphy Ali Ganji are currently on display in an exhibition at Iran’s cultural attaché’s office in Moscow....
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Kayhan Kalhor to team up with Dutch band for tour of Netherlands
TEHRAN – Iranian kamancheh virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor will perform with the Rembrandt Frerichs Trio during their tour of the Netherlands, which will take place from February 13 to 15. The first...
View ArticleWhat’s in art galleries
Painting * Mina Gallery is hosting an exhibition of paintings by Ali-Asghar Qarebaghi. The exhibition runs until January 22 at the gallery, which can be found at 120 Golestan-e Dovvom Alley, off...
View ArticleBerlinale to screen “Atom-Heart Mother”
TEHRAN -- “Atom-Heart Mother” by Iranian director Ali Ahmadzadeh will be screened in the Forum section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival -- Berlinale, which will open On February 5....
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DEFC produces biopic on Persian scholar Jafar Shahidi
TEHRAN – The Documentary and Experimental Film Center (DEFC) has produced a biopic of Jafar Shahidi (1918-2008), an expert on Persian literature and a prominent Islamic historian. Directed by...
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Kayhan Kalhor to team up with Dutch band for tour of Netherlands
TEHRAN – Iranian kamancheh virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor will perform with the Rembrandt Frerichs Trio during their tour of the Netherlands, which will take place from February 13 to 15. The first...
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