Theater troupe to hold fundraiser for actor Mostafa Abdollahi’s cancer treatment
TEHRAN – The Sepanta Theater Troupe plans to stage a reading performance to raise funds to cover part of the cost of treatment for theater artist Mostafa Abdollahi, who is suffering from blood cancer....
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Iran’s National Museum of the Press closed five months after inauguration
TEHRAN -- The office of the deputy culture minister for press affairs shut down Iran’s National Museum of the Press five months after its opening, the Persian service of ISNA reported on Saturday....
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Cartoons of Iranian musicians on display at Tehran gallery
TEHRAN – A collection of cartoons centering on Iranian musicians is currently on display in an exhibition at Tehran’s Naqsh-e Jahan Gallery. Entitled “Face to Face”, the collection has been created...
View ArticleMore films added to national lineup of Fajr festival
TEHRAN -- The organizers of the 32nd Fajr International Film Festival have added more movies to the national competition section of the event. “The Problem Story” by directed by Kamal Tabrizi,...
View ArticleSahar airing doc on Rumi for Bosnian viewers
TEHRAN -- The Bosnian TV section of Iran’s Sahar Universal Network began airing a documentary on the Persian mystic and poet Molana Jalal ad-Din Rumi (1207-1273) on Sunday. The documentary entitled...
View ArticleIranian artists holding workshops in Bashkortostan
TEHRAN – Iranian calligrapher Ali Ganji and illuminator Maryam Emami are holding a series of workshops, which opened on Sunday in Ufa, the capital city of Bashkortostan, an autonomous republic in the...
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Jamshid Mashayekhi collaborating on doc “From Iran to Argentina”
TEHRAN -- The veteran Iranian actor Jamshid Mashayekhi is currently collaborating with Ali Fat’h-Layeqzadeh in “From Iran to Argentina”, a documentary the latter is making about Iranians’ pacifism....
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Let authors write about the dark side of the war: writer
TEHRAN -- The children’s book writer Ebrahim Hassanbeigi has said that Iranian authors were given the opportunity to write enough about ‘positive’ aspects of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, now others...
View ArticleSelf-exiled Iranian pop star’s album re-released
TEHRAN -- Iran Gaam, a major Iranian recording studio, has recently re-released self-exiled Iranian pop star Shadmehr Aqili’s album “Rural”, the Persian service of ISNA reported on Tuesday. The...
View Article12 classical Iranian ensembles to compete in Fajr Intl. Music Festival
TEHRAN -- Twelve classical Iranian ensembles will be competing in the 29th edition of the Fajr International Music Festival, organizers announced on Tuesday. Three ensembles from Tehran and nine...
View ArticleItaly’s culture minister to visit Tehran in late January
TEHRAN -- The Italian Minister of Culture Massimo Bray will visit Tehran late January, announced the Italian ambassador to Tehran Luca Giansanti on Tuesday. This visit is in line with the new...
View ArticleIranian film to compete in Dhaka festival
TEHRAN – The Iranian movie “The Sealed Secret” will compete in the 13th Dhaka International Film Festival, which will be held in Dhaka, Bangladesh from January 10 to 18. Directed by Hadi...
View ArticleAnother translation of “Madame Bovary” appears in Persian
TEHRAN – Another Persian translation of French writer Gustave Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary” has been published in Tehran. Flaubert’s debut novel “Madame Bovary” was rendered into Persian by Bahareh...
View ArticleAnother Persian version of Umberto Eco’s “Confessions” hits bookstore
TEHRAN – The Iranian company Rozaneh has recently published another Persian translation of Umberto Eco’s “Confessions of a Young Novelist”. The book, which is a short collection of essays/lectures...
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Niki Karimi on Indian filmfest jury
TEHRAN – The Iranian actress-cum-director Niki Karimi will has been selected as a member of the jury for the 12th Pune International Film Festival. Seven additional cineastes from other countries...
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Persian art highlights Kuwait international exhibition of Islamic Art
TEHRAN – A variety of splendid Persian art by Iranian artists is on display at the 6th International Forum of Islamic Art now underway in Kuwait. Organized by the Kuwaiti Ministry of Awqaf and...
View ArticlePolish director Wlodzimierz Staniewski invited to Fajr theater festival
TEHRAN – The celebrated Polish director Wlodzimierz Staniewski has been invited by Iran’s Av Theater Troupe to the 32nd Fajr International Theater Festival. Staniewski is scheduled to direct...
View ArticleSaba institute displays paintings by Jafar Petgar
TEHRAN -- An exhibition of paintings by Iranian painter and carpet designer Jafar Petgar (1920-2004) was inaugurated here on Tuesday at the Saba Art and Cultural Institute in conjunction with an...
View ArticleTehran museum to exhibit photos by Kamran Adl
TEHRAN – The Iran Photo Museum, which is also known as Axkhaneh Shahr, will highlight sixty years of photography by Kamran Adl in an exhibition that opens today. A collection of 12 photos in black...
View ArticlePresident accepts Iranian art and cultural guilds’ call for meeting
TEHRAN -- President Hassan Rouhani has accepted an invitation from six Iranian guilds in the fields of art and culture to meet with members of the associations. The meeting was scheduled for...
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