Egyptian students and teachers of Persian language visit Iranian center
TEHRAN – A number of Egyptian students of the Persian language along with their teachers visited the Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia (CGIE) in Tehran on Sunday. The group coming from...
View ArticleIranian troupes win awards at Fajr Intl. Theater Festival
TEHRAN – Iranian troupes have won all awards in the national and international sections of the 33rd Fajr International Fajr Festival. The winners were announced during the closing ceremony of the...
View ArticleMembers of Iranian Strategy Council for International Cinematic Affairs selected
TEHRAN -- Cinema Organization of Iran (COI) Director Hojjatollah Ayyubi has selected the members of the Iranian Strategy Council for International Cinematic Affairs, which implements policies of the...
View ArticleIran seeks registration of natural, historical sites in UNESCO
TEHRAN – Iran has recently submitted two documents on the Lut Desert and Iranian aqueducts (qanats) for registration on UNESCO’s list of the Natural World Heritage Sites and the World Heritage List....
View ArticleBenyamin to link Valentine’s Day with Sepandarmazgan in London, Tehran
TEHRAN -- Logan Hall of the University of London and Tehran’s Milad Tower will host fans of Iranian pop star Benyamin for concerts, which aim to forge link between Valentine’s Day and Sepandarmazgan,...
View ArticleGilaki music ensemble to perform in Moscow
TEHRAN -- Gil and Amard, an ensemble from the northern Iranian province of Gilan, will perform several concerts of Gilaki folk music in Moscow. The concerts, which have been organized by the Iranian...
View ArticleEgyptian students and teachers of Persian language visit Iranian center
TEHRAN – A number of Egyptian students of the Persian language along with their teachers visited the Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia (CGIE) in Tehran on Sunday. The group coming from...
View ArticleIranian troupes win awards at Fajr Intl. Theater Festival
TEHRAN – Iranian troupes have won all awards in the national and international sections of the 33rd Fajr International Fajr Festival. The winners were announced during the closing ceremony of the...
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Russian muftis visit Iran TEHRAN- A group of 23 Russian muftis arrived in Iran on Monday to visit with Iranian officials and ulama. On the first part of their itinerary, the group met the director...
View ArticleKurdish director’s debut film chronicles love story in Halabja tragedy
TEHRAN -- Iranian Kurdish director Ahmad Ramezanzadeh’s debut film, “The Story of Love”, tells a tale of love set in the aftermath of the Iraqi chemical weapons attack on the Kurdish city of Halabja...
View ArticleTehran galleries hold painter Sirak Melkonian’s retrospective
TEHRAN – Two galleries in Tehran are holding a retrospective of painter Sirak Melkonian in a joint project. A collection of paintings created over the past 70 years by the 85-year-old artist are on...
View ArticleFajr festival highlights three decades of Iranian illustration art
TEHRAN -- The 7th Fajr International Festival of Visual Arts opened on Tuesday with a variety of exhibitions, highlighting three decades of Iranian illustration art. Organized by the Association of...
View ArticleEgyptian students and teachers of Persian language visit Iranian center
TEHRAN – A number of Egyptian students of the Persian language along with their teachers visited the Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia (CGIE) in Tehran on Sunday. The group coming from...
View ArticleIranian troupes win awards at Fajr Intl. Theater Festival
TEHRAN – Iranian troupes have won all awards in the national and international sections of the 33rd Fajr International Fajr Festival. The winners were announced during the closing ceremony of the...
View ArticleArt news in brief
Russian muftis visit Iran TEHRAN- A group of 23 Russian muftis arrived in Iran on Monday to visit with Iranian officials and ulama. On the first part of their itinerary, the group met the director...
View ArticleFajr festival highlights three decades of Iranian illustration art
TEHRAN -- The 7th Fajr International Festival of Visual Arts opened on Tuesday with a variety of exhibitions, highlighting three decades of Iranian illustration art. Organized by the Association of...
View ArticleTehran galleries hold painter Sirak Melkonian’s retrospective
TEHRAN – Two galleries in Tehran are holding a retrospective of painter Sirak Melkonian in a joint project. A collection of paintings created over the past 70 years by the 85-year-old artist are on...
View ArticleKurdish director’s debut film chronicles love story in Halabja tragedy
TEHRAN -- Iranian Kurdish director Ahmad Ramezanzadeh’s debut film, “The Story of Love”, tells a tale of love set in the aftermath of the Iraqi chemical weapons attack on the Kurdish city of Halabja...
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“Zoroaster in History” published in Persian TEHRAN - A Persian translation of “Zoroaster in History” written by Italian scholar and Iranologist Gherardo Gnoli has recently been published in Iran....
View ArticleBook on Iranian poet Mehdi Akhavan-Saless published in New Delhi
A book on Mehdi Akhavan-Saless (1929-1990), one of the pioneers of blank verse in Persian literature, has been published in Persian in New Delhi. Entitled “The Position of Mehdi Akhavan-Saless in...
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