Three petrochemical companies in southern Iran have been collaborating with domestic catalyst producers and knowledge-based firms to indigenize catalysts. Hengam Petrochemical Company on Hengam…

Apart from the huge videogame market in the country, tabletop games have also found a large fan base among Iranians in recent years. For the first time, five Iranian companies will take part in…

Economic sanctions imposed by the US against Iran has hurt the water and wastewater industry, similar to many other sectors, participants in this year's International Water and Wastewater…

Iran narrowly lost its second Group B match in the 2018 World Cup to powerhouse Spain 1-0 in Kazan, Russia, on Wednesday. But with three points from the first game with Morocco, Team Melli is…

Team Melli edged past Morocco in the opening match of Group B at Russia FIFA World Cup on Friday.

Morocco’s unfortunate stoppage time own goal proved fatal for the African side as they…

On the occasion of International Tabletop Day (ITTD) which is celebrated in over 70 countries on April 28, the Mind Sports Forum at Iran Sport for All Federation has planned a nationwide program…

One of the few places in Iran that offers 220 tabletop games as a fun group activity besides the fare usually served in most coffee shops is Café Geek in central Tehran.

The first ‘game theater’ opened at Book City in Tehran University to make a difference. It allows the audience to experience something more than just watching a play.

Titled ‘Surprise’,…

More than 12,000 professionals, including 3,200 producers, 1,200 salesmen, 1,750 buyers and 800 festival organizers, will come together at this year’s Cannes Film Market, the business part of the…

Heavy rainfall at Shahr-e-Aftab (Sun City) Complex on the third evening of the 30th Tehran International Book Fair (TIBF) on Friday, May 5, created havoc at the foreign and children publishers…

This year’s Fajr International Film Festival (FIFF), April 21-28, saw more than 100 young filmmakers from 33 countries participating in workshops named ‘Talent Campus’.

The sessions,…

Well-known French journalist and critic Jean-Michel Frodon is participating in the Fajr International Film Festival (FIFF) in Tehran for the third time.

Bianca Taal, programmer of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) in the Netherlands, is a guest of the 35th Fajr International Film Festival and is in Tehran to select films from among…

Malaysian filmmaker Aw See Wee whose short fiction ‘Highway’ has two showings at the Fajr International Film Festival (FIFF) which opened on Friday, is in Tehran to see his work.

Although…

The 35th Fajr International Film Festival (FIFF) opened on Friday in Tehran with the screening of over 40 movies in 10 sections at various cinema halls.

Iran cinema has proved its mettle across the globe in the past two decades by winning numerous awards at various prestigious film festivals including Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Locarno, London,…

The first volume of a trilogy written by Iranian author Yousef Alikhani has been translated into English and brought out by Candle & Fog Publishing house.

The Persian book ‘Ghadam…

Hundreds of art exhibitions are held throughout the year in Tehran but not all are marked with a grand opening in which thousands attend. On Friday, November 4, Shirin Art…

A group exhibition of illustrations titled ‘Extraordinary Creatures’ is underway at Maryam (Saint Mary) Art Gallery in Tehran which features artistic creations of imaginary creatures rooted in…

Many Iranians have a taste for Spanish music; they either listen to it or follow the style in playing an instrument and composing musical works.

The book signing ceremony for the first two volumes of the Persian fantasy horror novel ‘Parsua Plain’ written by Maryam Azizi and published by Ofoq Publishers was held at Ofoq bookstore in…

The 2-kilometer-long Hijab Street in central Tehran was closed on Sunday morning as thousands of people converged to attend the funeral of the prominent filmmaker Abbas Kairostami which began at…

Iranian director and actors of ‘The Salesman’ which won two awards at Cannes Film Festival (May 11-22), attended a press conference at Khaneh Hamayesh (conference house) in Tehran on Monday.

The book ‘Under the Skin of Tales’ by film critic and screenwriter Saeed Aqiqi, a survey on the reflection of reality in Rakhshan Bani-Etemad’s movies was unveiled at Khaneh (House) of Cinema in…

No matter how far the venue of the Tehran International Book Fair (TIBF), visitors rush to the annual event judging by the huge crowd daily at its new venue at the Shahr-e-Aftab (Sun City).