Iranian vocalist Fazel Jamshidi plans to perform in Turkey
TEHRAN -- Iranian vocalist Fazel Jamshidi plans to perform in Turkey in late August. Also accompanying Jamshidi will be a group that will perform the Torbat-e Jam traditional dance during his...
View ArticleAfghanistan to give digital copies of historical documents, rare manuscripts...
TEHRAN -- Afghanistan’s National Archives plans to give digital copies of a large number of historical documents about Iran and an enormous collection of rare manuscripts to Iran in the near future....
View ArticleSpanish university holding course on Iranian cinema
TEHRAN -- The Complutense University in Madrid is holding a course on Iranian cinema this week. Entitled “Iranian cinema: A Narrative Proposal for Universal Dialogue”, the event started on July 15...
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Qajar era monument converted into museum for works of Kamalolmolk and students
TEHRAN -- The Negarestan Garden, a Qajar era monument in Tehran, has been converted into a museum to display works of Qajar era painter Mohammad Qaffari (1847-1940), known as Kamalolmolk, and his...
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Rare copies of Holy Quran registered on Iran’s National Memory List
TEHRAN -- Thirty rare manuscript copies of the Holy Quran were registered on Iran’s National Memory List during a ceremony at Tehran’s Niavaran Historical Cultural Complex on Monday. The books, which...
View ArticleIranian Quran memorizer Milad Asheqi competing in Dubai contest
TEHRAN – Iranian Quran memorizer Milad Asheqi is currently competing in the 17th Dubai International Holy Quran Awards (DIHQA), which commenced on Tuesday. Quran reciters and memorizers from 88...
View ArticleIranologist Manuchehr Sotudeh to be honored
TEHRAN – Scholars will come together at Tehran’s Negarestan Garden tomorrow in a ceremony to celebrate veteran Iranologist Manuchehr Sotudeh’s 100th birthday. The ceremony has been arranged by the...
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What’s in art galleries
Photo * The Homa Gallery is currently hosting an exhibition of photos by Sahar Mokhtari. The exhibit will run until July 23 at the gallery located at 58 Chehrazi St., near the intersection of...
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Literary journal Bokhara fetes actor Davud Rashidi on his 80th birthday
TEHRAN -- The Persian literary monthly Bokhara celebrated actor/director Davud Rashidi’s 80th birthday on Tuesday. A large number of literati, Rashidi’s friends and colleagues attended the...
View Article“Three Soldiers” comes to Iranian bookstores
TEHRAN -- The Persian translation of “Three Soldiers” written by the American novelist John Roderigo Dos Passos (1896–1970) has been published in Iran. Ali Kahrobaei has translated the book into...
View ArticleIranian organization and Italian university sign MOU
TEHRAN -- The University of Cagliari in Italy and Iran’s Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO) signed a memorandum of understanding last week. The MOU was inked by Iranian cultural...
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New edition of Quran in thulth calligraphy revealed
TEHRAN -- A new edition of the Holy Quran, which has been inscribed in thulth, a calligraphic variety of Arabic script, was unveiled during a ceremony in Khalkhal, Ardebil Province. Iranian...
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Nasser Taqvaii’s clouds hang over Lavasan gallery
TEHRAN -- A collection of photos by filmmaker Nasser Taqvaii with the theme of clouds has been put on display in an exhibition at the Negah Gallery in Lavasan, a fresh countryside in the northeast...
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3 Iranian films competing in Giffoni festival
TEHRAN -- Three Iranian films are competing in the 43rd Giffoni International Film Festival, the largest children’s film festival in Europe that is currently underway in the southwestern Italian town...
View Article“Hamun” and “Tenants” return to Tehran cinemas
TEHRAN – “Hamun” and “The Tenants”, Iranian filmmaker Dariush Mehrjuii’s box-office hits of the 1980s, are on screen now in Tehran’s theaters. The films are in a lineup scheduled to be screened in...
View ArticleIranian, Turkish virtuosos to perform in Erbil
TEHRAN – Iranian Kamancheh virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor and the Turkish baglama player Erdal Erzincan will perform a duet in Erbil, Iraq on August 26. The two are currently working on their new album to...
View ArticleTehran theater to host “Stones in His Pockets” in September
TEHRAN -- Actor/director Parsa Piruzfar will stage Irish playwright and actress Marie Jones’ “Stones in His Pockets” at Hall No. 1 of the Iranshahr Theater Complex in Tehran on September 9. The...
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Kiarostami to make short film for “Venezia 70”
TEHRAN – Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami will be one of a number of international filmmakers who will be making short films for “Venezia 70 – Future Reloaded”, which will be a celebration of the 70th...
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Iranian translator working on comic German bestseller about Hitler
TEHRAN -- Iranian translator Mahshid Mirmoezzi is currently working on “He’s Back” (“Er Ist Wieder Da”), a comic novel about Adolf Hitler, which topped the bestselling lists in Germany early this year....
View ArticleIran, Mexico to boost ties on cinema
TEHRAN – Iran’s Documentary and Experimental Film Center (DEFC) Director Shafi Aqamohammadian and Mexican Chargé d’Affaires Martin Torres discussed the expansion of relations in the film industry...
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