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Iranian films line up for Swedish festival
TEHRAN -- Three Iranian movies will be competing in the 37th Goteborg International Film Festival, which is scheduled to be held in the Swedish city from January 24 to February 3. “Acrid” directed by...
View ArticleAnother translation of “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” appears in Persian
TEHRAN – Another Persian translation of “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” by a philosophical novel by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche has appeared in Iran. Translated by Qoli Khayyat, the book was...
View ArticleIran to hold cultural festival in Tunisia
TEHRAN – Tunis will host an Iranian cultural festival in early February. The festival has been organized by the Iranian cultural attaché’s office in the Tunisian capital in line with the Ten-Day...
View ArticleMannheim officials send message to theater aficionados in Iran
TEHRAN -- National Theater of Mannheim Director Burkhard C. Kosminski and Lord Mayor of Mannheim Peter Kurz have sent a message to theater aficionados at the 32nd Fajr International Theater Festival....
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CHTHO Director Mohammad-Ali Najafi visiting FITUR
TEHRAN – The director of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Organization (CHTHO) has traveled to Spain to visit the International Tourism Trade Fair -- FITUR 2014, which opened in Madrid...
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“Camp X-Ray” star will never play Iranian characters in foreign projects
TEHRAN -- Iranian star of “Camp X-Ray” Peyman Moadi has stated that he will never play an Iranian character in any foreign film project. Moadi portrays Ali, a Tunisian man who has been imprisoned by...
View Article“Pictures from Gihane” highlights Italian cultural night in Tehran
TEHRAN – Tehran’s Iranshahr Theater Complex hosted an Italian troupe performing “Pictures from Gihane” as part of a program for an Italian cultural night on Thursday. Italian Ambassador Luca...
View ArticleTehran meeting to mull over adding more countries to Noruz file in UNESCO
TEHRAN – The representatives from the seven countries that registered the Noruz celebration on UNESCO’s List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2009 will come together today in Tehran...
View Article“Saddam” to appear on stage in Tehran
TEHRAN – The celebrated Iranian director Mohammad Rahmanian will stage a play in Tehran on the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Entitled “Saddam”, the play is on his life, his execution and its...
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Cinematographer Maziar Partow dies at 81
TEHRAN – The veteran Iranian cinematographer Maziar Partow died on Wednesday. He was 81. Partow, who lived in California, U.S. over the past six years, had been suffering from heart disease for many...
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Producer calls his project on Iran hostage crisis “a blockbuster”
TEHRAN -- Iranian producer Jamal Sadatian said that his film project on the Iranian occupation of the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979 will be “a blockbuster”. “Sixty-six foreign actors – as many as...
View Article3 decades of art show posters on display at Tehran museum
TEHRAN – The Imam Ali (AS) Religious Arts Museum in Tehran is currently hosting an exhibition of posters that were created for Iranian art shows and festivals in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s....
View ArticleTehran hosts Fajr Theater Market
TEHRAN – The Fajr Theater Market was held on the sidelines of the 32nd Fajr International Theater Festival at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on Friday and Saturday. A number Iranian troupes and foreign...
View ArticleItalian culture minister to visit Bam Citadel
TEHRAN – The Italian Minister of Culture, Massimo Bray, is scheduled to visit the city of Bam and its historical citadel in the central Iranian province of Kerman this week. Bray met the Iranian...
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Afghanistan Publishers Union to establish bookstore in Tehran
TEHRAN – The Afghanistan Publishers Union has plans to establish a bookstore in Tehran to sell Afghan books in the coming months. About 80 percent of the books in Afghanistan are currently being...
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CHTHO director visits president of Spain’s National Heritage agency
TEHRAN -- The director of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Organization (CHTHO), Mohammad-Ali Najafi, met the president of Spain’s National Heritage agency, Jose Rodriguez-Spiteri, on...
View ArticleIranian poet invited to 23rd World Congress of Poets in Osaka
TEHRAN – The self-taught Iranian poetess Khadijeh Shiran has been invited to the 23rd World Congress of Poets to be held in Osaka, Japan running from March 25 to 29. During the congress, poets from...
View ArticleIranian cinephiles to enjoy “Cinematic Lessons from Abbas Kiarostami”
TEHRAN -- “Abbas Kiarostami and Cinematic Lessons”, a book covering the workshops the Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami held in Spain in February 2012, was published in Persian in Tehran last week....
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Former Iranian culture minister Nasser Minachi dies at 82
TEHRAN – Nasser Minachi, who served as the first Iranian culture minister after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, died on Saturday at the age of 82. He was suffering from heart disease...
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Iran, Italy agree to establish committee for cultural collaborations
TEHRAN – The Italian Minister of Culture, Massimo Bray, and Iranian Deputy Culture Minister for Artistic Affairs Ali Moradkhani have agreed to establish a committee to organize the expansion of...
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