Art And Culture

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  • Former Iranian football player Ali Karimi has been selected an assistant coach for Iran national team manager Carlos Queiroz.

    In a press conference held to officially introduce him as the…

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  • The work of five Iranian artists have been presented at the second edition of Istanbul’s leading international art fair which runs for 3 days from September 26 to 28  bringing together 78…

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  • Iran’s welterweight wushu fighter Mohsen Mohammad-Seifi grabbed his second Asiad gold at the 2014 Incheon Games on Wednesday after easily defeating his Kazakh rival in the final.

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  • The moment Iranian archer Zahra Nemati celebrated her victory at London 2012, she was chosen to be among the top ‘25 moments’ of the Paralympic Movement from the last quarter of a century.

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  • The official poster for the 14th International Documentary Film Festival ‘Flahertiana’ in Russia was released with a picture from the Iranian documentary ‘Trucker and the Fox’.

    In last year…

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  • Shahram Shokouhi will tour five different cities of Canada in 10 days starting next week.

    The Iranian pop singer is scheduled to sing in Toronto and Vancouver, honaronline quoted Morteza…

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  • A total of 70 books on sacred defense will participate in the 33rd Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) next month in Germany

    The books have been selected by a group of experts at the Sacred Defense…

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  • Pouran Derakhshandeh’s movie ‘Hush, Girls Don’t Scream’ was shown at the department of women’s studies at Berkeley University, California. The movie received a positive feedback from the audience…

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  • An Iranian-Assyrian music composer announced that his latest performance was a protest against the genocide and crimes of the Islamic State (IS), formerly called ISIL, Islamic State of Iraq and…

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  • On the occasion of school reopening in Iran on September 23, Minister of Education Ali Asghar Fani and First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri attended Hazrat Zeinab Girls School in Tehran to…

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  • The Muslim singer Yusuf Islam has announced the release of his new album called ‘Tell ‘Em I’m Gone’ in October.

    Yusuf wrote his own songs for the new album which will be released on Oct 27…

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  • A new play based on the world-famous character Pinocchio has gone on stage in Tehran, which largely remains faithful to the original story, with some minor changes though.

    Over the decades…

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  • Iranian drama ‘Melbourne’ will compete in the competition section of the 10th Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) along with 13 other movies.

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  • The International Day of Peace, September 21, was commemorated in Tehran at the Conference Hall of the Great Islamic Encyclopedia Center.

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  • Iranian director Mehdi Rahmani’s ‘Snow’ will be screened at the 16th International Mumbai Film Festival (MFF) in India.

    ‘Snow’ has been an entry in a number of international events. It is a…

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  • Following its presence across the globe, the Iranian animation, ‘Dad’s Fragile Doll’, is present at the 16th Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, Brazil.

    Written, directed and…

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  • The play ‘Christ According to Pilate’, narrating the last hours of the life of Jesus Christ, will be performed at Fajr Theater Festival.

    The sources of the play are the holy Qur’an and…

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  • A cleric is to host a TV show for the first time. ‘Carat 24’, a TV show, would be broadcast from Qur’an channel from September 23 between 9 pm and 10 pm, head of social and documentary programs…

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  • To celebrate the beginning of school year for first-year primary school students, the ceremony of ‘Blossoms Celebration’ was symbolically inaugurated yesterday morning, (September 22), at the ‘…

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  • Following its international screening, the documentary ‘Trucker and the Fox’ directed by Arash Lahooti has entered the competition section of the Budapest International Documentary Festival (BIDF…

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  • The 42nd Meeting of Art Research was held in Kamal-ol-Molk Museum.

    The meeting was in fact the fifth of its kind to honor a calligrapher and paid homage to Master Mohammad Vali Kimia-Qalam…

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  • A symphonic suite is to be composed based on the historic speech of Imam Sajjad (A.S.) in Sham’s Mosque.

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  • One of the issues appearing and reappearing in the cultural corridors of Shiraz is the demolition of historical homes across Fars Province of which Shiraz is the capital.

    It was not in the…

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  • A university professor and Persian language expert and researcher says: “What makes us stand tall in the world is Persian language. What we enjoy (have) and others do not are great litterateurs…

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  • The famous Muslim singer, Sami Yusuf, released his 5th album ‘The Center’ last week.

    The new album contains 13 tracks, sung in three languages, English, Arabic and Persian, MNA reported.…

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