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  • Niavaran Cultural Center in Tehran is holding a review on 70 years of landscape art in Iran. ‘Landscape Up Close’ is the title of the event, organized in the form of an exhibition, Honaronline…

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  • One of Iran’s animated series ‘Cou Cou & Bou Bou’ is to be internationally premiered at the 1st Palm Springs International Animation Festival, slated for November 9-11.

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  • A bronze bust of Iranian Olympic gold-medal wrestler Gholam-Reza Takhti (1930-1968) was unveiled on October 4 at the American Sport Art Museum & Archives (ASAMA) in the city of Daphne,…

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  • ‘The Iron Dream,’ a documentary directed by filmmaker Yaser Talebi, has entered the lineup for 2017 Travel Filmfest slated for October 12-22 in Lemesos on the island of Cyprus. The film is…

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  • The Nobel Peace Prize for 2017 was awarded to ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.

    The organization is receiving the award for its work to draw attention to the…

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  • Written by Mohammad Charmshir, the play ‘Sleepy Eyes Shut’ is on show at the Iranian Artists Forum (IAF) and will run through October 25.

    An adaptation of a story titled ‘My Son the…

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  • ‘Gertrude and Ghost of Hamlet’s Father’, written and directed by Seyed Meysam Motahari is an Iranian play on the stage at Molavai Hall until October 13.

    Motahari’s work is an abridged…

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  • Iranian Artists Forum (IAF) is hosting ‘The Sunset Limited’, a play directed by Faranak Heidarian and based on a namesake novel written by Cormac McCarthy, an American novelist, playwright and…

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  • Zhivar Tour Company has planned a one-day trip to the forest of Palang-Darreh north of Lar National Park in northern Mazandaran Province. Besides the lush forest, Palang Darreh is also known for…

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  • A children’s electronic book website, Dani, is to be launched during the Iranian National Children’s Week (October 7-13) two months after its beta version was tested.

    “This website will…

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  • An estimated 103 ancient artifacts from Armenia will be on display in Tehran from October 17-January 17.

    Accompanied by two representatives from the History Museum of Armenia in Yerevan…

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  • A Song dynasty bowl shattered the world record for Chinese ceramics, fetching $37.7 million in Hong Kong sale.

    The nearly 900-year-old porcelain Song dynasty bowl smashed the world…

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  • The 3rd International Conference on Shams-e-Tabrizi and Rumi, two accomplished Iranian poets, will be held October 7-8 in the city of Khoy in West Azarbaijan Province.

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  • The fourth exhibition of paintings by famous Iranian poet and lyricist Maryam Heydarzadeh, titled ‘After All Those Regrets’ is to be inaugurated on October 6 at Shokouh Art Gallery in Tehran.…

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  • Three biophysicists win 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry for imaging molecules of life.

    The prize is given to Jacques Dubochet from University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Joachim Frank from…

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  • A one-day tour to Zal-Darreh, a forest region in the northern province of Mazandaran, is slated for this Friday.

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  • Lalezar Street in the crowded downtown in Tehran has quite a dissimilar face on a non-working day. Zhivar Tour Company has planned a fleeting tour to Lalezar, one of the oldest streets in…

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  • Iranian daf virtuoso and drummer, Asal Malekzadeh, is to attend the International Drums and Percussion Camp to be held Nov. 2-5 in Canton of Thurgau, Switzerland. She will perform with other…

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  • The 9th Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival (DTLA), held Sept. 21-30, granted its Female Pioneer Award to Iranian movie director Shiva Sanjari for her documentary biopic ‘Here the Seats Are…

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  • Works by Houshang Pezeshknia, the renowned pioneer of modernist painting in Iran will soon be seen in an exhibition in northern Tehran.

    The exhibition of 'Houshang Pezeshknia's Works'…

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  • The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics was divided, one half awarded to Rainer Weiss, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and the other half jointly to Barry C. Barish and Kip S.…

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  • The feature-length drama ‘Yellow’ directed by Mostafa Taghizadeh is currently on screen across the country. It received the jury Grand Prix at the 20th Shanghai International Film Festival in…

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  •  Written and directed by Kaveh Sabaghzade, the fantasy-comedy movie ‘Italy Italy’ tells the story of a couple, Barfa and Nader, and the problems they face early in their marriage. Hamed…

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  • ‘Malaria’ is a 2016 Iranian drama written and directed by Parviz Shahbazi. It premiered in the Horizons section at the 73rd Venice Film Festival in September 2016 and  later…

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  • Seven cinemas in Tehran are screening the 99-minute film ‘Little Heroes’, directed by Hossein Ghana’at.

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