Iran to send children’s books to Bologna fair
TEHRAN – Iran’s Cultural Fairs Institute will send a collection of children’s books with the central theme of old Persian tales to the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, which will be held from March 24 to...
View ArticleCarpet exhibit underway at Tehran cultural center
TEHRAN – Tehran’s Niavaran Cultural Center is playing host to an exhibition of Persian carpets. Carpets from various Iranian cities including Isfahan, Qom, Tabriz and Shiraz have been put on display...
View ArticleIranian handicrafts to go on display in Iraqi cities
TEHRAN – The Iranian handicrafts will go on display at two separate exhibitions in the Iraqi cities of Sulaymaniyah and Kalar during spring. The exhibitions, which have been organized by the...
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“Neither Angel nor Devil Am I” released
TEHRAN – The new album by vocalist Homayun Shajarian, and composer and string instrumentalist Tahmures Purnazari, “Neither Angel nor Devil Am I”, has been released by Iran-Gaam, a major Iranian music...
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Iranian theaters to entertain filmgoers with five new movies during Noruz
TEHRAN -- A miscellaneous assortment of films is scheduled to premiere at Iranian theaters for the Iranian New Year celebration, Noruz, which will begin this year on March 21. “The Ascendants”, war...
View ArticleDocumentary on Simin Daneshvar gets DEFC sponsorship
TEHRAN -- “Without the Cedar of Simin”, a documentary being made by Seyyed Javad Mirhashemi about the Iranian author and translator Simin Daneshvar, has obtained financial sponsorship from the...
View ArticlePhoto exhibit to raise funds for ailing artists
TEHRAN – Tehran’s Mohsen Gallery is hosting an exhibition of photos to raise funds for artists who are suffering from different types of diseases. Photos by veteran stage and screen actor Farhad...
View ArticleNew York festival to screen Iran’s “Cat and Fish”
TEHRAN – The acclaimed Iranian psychodrama “Cat and Fish” will go on screen at the New Directors/New Films festival, which will be held in New York from March 19 to 30. “Cat and Fish” tells the...
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Iranian cinematographer Mahmud Kalari to hold master class in Dublin
TEHRAN – The prominent Iranian cinematographer Mahmud Kalari will be holding a master class on the first day of the Silk Road Film Festival, which will be held in Dublin, Ireland from March 19 to 25....
View ArticleMore books by Orhan Pamuk to appear in Persian
TEHRAN – Two more books by the Nobel prize-winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk have recently been translated into Persian. “The Naive and Sentimental Novelist” and “Cevdet Bey and His Sons” have...
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Actor Parviz Parastuii asks people to sign petition for release of abducted...
TEHRAN -- Actor Parviz Parastuii has asked people around the world to sign a petition for the release of the five Iranian border guards who were kidnapped by the Pakistani rebel group Jaish al-Adl in...
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Producers to take “Track 143” to French film market
TEHRAN – Producers Abuzar Purmohammadi and Mohammad-Hossein Qasemi plan to send the Iranian war drama “Track 143” to the 51st MIP TV, an international TV and digital content market in Cannes, France....
View ArticleTehran’s Art Bureau to publish Nima Yushij poems in Arab countries
TEHRAN – Tehran’s Art Bureau will publish an Arabic translation of a selection of works by the father of Iranian blank verse poetry, Nima Yushij (1896-1960), in Arab countries in the near future....
View ArticleIranian theater troupe to perform in Turkey, Azerbaijan
TEHRAN -- The Iranian theater troupe Kotal plans to go on stage at festivals in Turkey and Azerbaijan. The Tabriz-based troupe will perform “The Little Black Fish” at the 8th Ethos Ankara...
View ArticleDarwish’s love poems appear in Persian
TEHRAN -- A collection of love poems by the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish has been translated into Persian. Musa Bidaj has selected and translated the poems for the collection entitled “Rita…...
View ArticleIranian children to enjoy “Save the Empire”
TEHRAN – A Persian translation of the children’s book “Save the Empire” has been recently published in Iran. Written by the British writers Steve Barlow and Steve Skidmore, “Save the Empire” is a...
View ArticleEgyptian novel “Sunset Oasis” coming to Iranian bookstores
TEHRAN – A Persian version of Egyptian author Bahaa Taher’s post-colonial novel “Sunset Oasis” will be published by Iranian publisher Nilufar in the near future. Rahim Forughi has translated the...
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Music Museum of Iran displays Qajar era instrument donated by Japanese expert
TEHRAN – The five-stringed Qajar era tar, previously donated by the Japanese music specialist Tsuge Gen’ichi to the Music Museum of Iran in late February, was unveiled during a ceremony on Thursday....
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Majid Majidi laments West’s Islamophobia
TEHRAN -- The Oscar nominated Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi criticized the West for disseminating Islamophobia in the world during a panel at the Palais De Nations in Geneva on Thursday. The panel...
View ArticleAkbar Abdi to stage Azeri musical “Mashadi Ibad” in Tehran
TEHRAN – Director and comedian actor Akbar Abdi plans to stage the Azeri musical comedy “If Not That One, Then This One”, also known as “Mashadi Ibad”, in both the Persian and Azeri languages in...
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