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Niavaran to host tazieh performances
TEHRAN -- A group is scheduled to give performances of tazieh for ten nights at Tehran’s Niavaran Cultural Center during the month of Muharram, which will begin on November 16 this year. Tazieh...
View ArticleIranian doc wins prize at French festival
TEHRAN – The Iranian film “The Last Days of Winter” won top prize at the Escales Documentaires, an international documentary festival, which was held from November 5 to 13 in La Rochelle, France....
View ArticleEgyptian cineastes meet ICO director
TEHRAN -- A group of Egyptian cineastes met Iran Cinema Organization Director Javad Shamaqdari in Tehran on Tuesday. Iran has organized the meeting to acquaint the group with the country’s cultural...
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Iran’s National Book Celebration held in Tehran
TEHRAN -- Iran’s National Book Celebration was held at Tehran’s Milad Tower on Wednesday. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Mohammad Hosseini and several other...
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“Taboor” receives Thessaloniki film festival special mention
TEHRAN -- Iranian director Vahid Vakilifar’s “Taboor” received the First Special Mention at the 53rd Thessaloniki International Film Festival in Athens, Greece. Vakilifar was not able to attend the...
View ArticleIran donates bibliography of manuscripts to Lenin State Library
TEHRAN -- Iran has donated a collection of books containing a comprehensive bibliography of manuscripts, which are kept at libraries and other centers, to the Lenin State Library in Moscow. The...
View ArticleMashhad to host film and photo festival on Ashura
TEHRAN -- The 4th Ashura Film and Photo Festival will be held in December in Mashhad. The festival, which has been organized by the Documentary and Experimental Film Center to promote photos and...
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Italian experts prepare topographic map of Sassanid city
A team of Italian experts has prepared a topographic map of Bishapur, the ruins of a Sassanid city located near the town of Kazerun in Fars Province. The map was prepared by UTM (Universal Transverse...
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Egyptian delegation visits Iranian culture minister
TEHRAN -- A group of Egyptian cineastes, which arrived in Tehran last week, visited the Iranian minister of culture and Islamic guidance on Wednesday evening. Potentials for expansion of relations...
View ArticleLiterature builds bridges between Russian and Iranian scholars in Shiraz
TEHRAN – A group of seven Russian literati and scholars attended a meeting with Iranian professors and students of the Persian language in Shiraz on Friday evening during a program entitled the...
View ArticleAran Gallery to hang Iranian works at Dubai art show
TEHRAN – The Aran Gallery is organizing an exhibition of Iranian works at the Art Dubai 2013. The Tehran-based gallery will offer artworks by several Iranian artists during the event, which will be...
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Bilingual book of selections from Khayyam’s Rubaiyat unveiled
TEHRAN -- A book of Persian-English selections from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, which has been published for UNESCO, was unveiled during a ceremony in Tehran on Friday evening. The Iranian National...
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Ahmadreza Darvish’s new film on Ashura uprising to be dubbed into English,...
TEHRAN -- Iranian director Ahmadreza Darvish’s new film on the Ashura uprising will be dubbed into English and Arabic, said the producer on Saturday. “Ruz-e Rastakhiz” (“The Day of Resurrection”) is...
View ArticleEstonian festival screening Iranian films
TEHRAN -- Two Iranian films are competing at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia. “The Last Step”, Ali Mosaffa’s drama about a movie superstar and the social drama “Modest Reception”...
View Article“Growing in the Wind” competing in Gijon filmfest
TEHRAN -- The Iranian children’s movie “Growing in the Wind” is competing at the Gijon International Film Festival in Spain. Directed by Rahbar Ghanbari, the film will be screened in the competition...
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Moscow library unveils Iran’s “Good Stories”
TEHRAN -- A Russian translation of “Good Stories for Good Children”, the fascinating book by the Iranian children’s writer Mehdi Azar Yazdi, was unveiled during a ceremony at the Russian State...
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Iranian, Arab artists hang posters at Berlin exhibition
TEHRAN -- A collection of posters by Iranian and Arab graphic designers is on display in an exhibition at Studio 1 in Berlin. Entitled “Right-to-Left”, the exhibit represents typographic works by...
View ArticleIranian films competing in IDFA 2012
TEHRAN – Four Iranian films are competing in the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), which opened on November 14. The documentaries are “Revolutionary Memories of Bahman Who...
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“Final Whistle” named best film at Mannheim-Heidelberg festival
TEHRAN -- “Final Whistle”, an Iranian drama on social and private life interactions, was crowned best film at the International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg in Germany on Monday. Directed by...
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Teahouse paintings on theme of Ashura on display in Tehran
TEHRAN -- A collection of teahouse paintings representing the theme of Ashura is currently on display in an exhibition at the Nations Art Museum of Tehran’s Sadabad Cultural Historical Complex. The...
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