Art And Culture

Tehran’s philharmonic orchestra will hold concerts on January 5 and 6, 2015 at Vahdat Hall, said Arash Guran, the conductor of the concerts.

“What we have chosen for this program is…

The First Islamic World Thuluth Calligraphy Festival will be held at Imam Ali (AS) Religious Arts Museum in Tehran late January, 2015.

An exhibition of works by 50 artists and calligraphers…

One of the privileges of Islam is its promotion of the scientific mentality and opening the gates of the sciences to world thinkers, director of Iran Society for the Appreciation of Cultural Works…

The rise of the video game and social media networks and apps has insidiously undermined adolescent and children’s appeal for reading alike. Pundits have referred to these contemporary pastimes as…

Book and pen are “guardians of knowledge and wisdom and illuminators of thinkers and sages,” Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ali Jannati said at the 14th commemoration ceremony of…

During the first session of a series of meetings planned for representatives of leading universities of the Muslim world, a memorandum of cooperation was signed between Al-Zaytoonah University of…

Director of the Museum of Anthropology in Serbia Mirjana Menkovic, hailed Iran’s heritage and said Serbians respect and honor Iranian tradition and culture, in a meeting with Iran’s cultural…

Tal music band will have concerts of Lorestani and Kurdish music on January 14 and 15, 2015 at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall.

Notable vocalist Faraj Alipour and Shahu Andalibi will render songs at…

Works by 114 visual artists will be displayed at Shirin Art Gallery from January 2-14, as part of an art exhibition titled ‘Jahan Pahlevan’ (The World Champion), a title fondly given to the famous…

Economic dividends can accrue from the country’s rich cultural heritage through proper investments, said Culture and Islamic Guidance Minister Ali Jannati on Tuesday.

With the cooperation of Indian Habitat Center (IHC) and Iranian Culture House in India, a number of Iranian movies will be displayed in the center in January.

A sculpting exhibition by the accomplished sculptor Abbas Akbari, under the title ‘Iranian Ink in Search of Meaning’ opened Sunday at Aun Gallery in Tehran.

Sculptures of iron and ceramic…

Sunday night, Tehran’s Vahdat Hall was host to a performance by the famous Indian musician Moinuddin Khan and his group.

Accompanying the musician was his son Mohsen Khan who rendered songs…

An English version of ‘Morabaye Shirin’ or ‘Sweet Jam’ written by Houshang Moradi-Kermani, will be presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) 2015.

FBF in Germany is the world’s largest…

The Cultural and Artistic Society of Iranian Illustrators in cooperation with the Iranian Association of Writers for Children and Youth, and the Elmi-Farhangi Publishing Company has launched a…

A well-known Shi’ite Iraqi scholar based in the Netherlands visited Tehran’s Encyclopedia of Islam Foundation on Sunday.

Mohammad Sa’id al-Tarihi, who is editor-in-chief of Al-Mausim…

A ‘royal’ vest which once belonged to Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar has been showcased in a rare gesture at the Museum of Iran’s Parliament. The garment, over 120 years old, was tailored and gifted…

Three Iranian children were awarded honorary diplomas at the International Montana Children Painting Competition in Bulgaria.

The Alvares Ski Resort is ready to hold junior ski competitions during this winter, says the director of the resort.

Akbar Abdoli said the resort, located in Ardebil Province in northeast…

Short film ‘Two Pieces of a Reality’ will participate in the Singapore Red Dot Cinema Film Festival.

The Iranian short film by Neda Asef will compete in the festival, a quarterly global…

This year marks 540 years of cultural and diplomatic relations between Iran and Poland. To commemorate the occasion, a one-day film festival featuring documentary movies by Iranian directors was…

The 54th session of the literary association of Bidel Dehlavi in New Delhi was dedicated to the memory of Mir Seyyed Ali Hamedani, the 14th century Iranian mystic and scientist who lived part of…

A book containing six stories from the famous title ‘One Thousand and One Nights’ have been published in Spanish by the ‘El Fargo’ group under the same name.

One will hardly imagine that Iran and Indonesia share a linguistic heritage; but in fact the language spoken in Indonesia (known as Bahasa) has 350 Persian words as part of its lexicon.

The Persian Language Center in Muscat has started offering Arabic language courses.