TEHRAN – Turkish novelist and winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature Orhan Pamuk is scheduled to travel to Iran. He will arrive in Tehran on Tuesday and his visit will last for three days, Qoqnus, the Iranian publisher of Pamuk’s works, announced on Saturday. He is scheduled to pay a visit to the […]

TEHRAN – The Ireland-based Iranian musician Hormoz Farhat, who is most famous for theme music for director Dariush Mehrjui’s 1969 cult film “The Cow”, was honored during a ceremony organized at the Iranian Artists Forum last Tuesday. Farhat who was once the dean of the Music Faculty of the University of Tehran returned home after […]

TEHRAN – Nasser Cheshmazar, a prominent Iranian composer who was best known for his memorable album “Rain of Love” and theme music for over 20 movies, died of a heart attack on Friday. He was 68. He died at a Tehran hospital, filmmaker Shahed Ahmadlu who is his brother-in-law told the Persian service of ILNA. […]

TEHRAN – Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Abbas Salehi officially inaugurated the 31st Tehran International Book Fair at the Imam Khomeini Mosalla on Tuesday. In a press conference held at the Iran Cultural Fairs Institute (ICFI) on Sunday, Deputy Culture Minister for Cultural Affairs Mohsen Javadi announced that President Hassan Rouhani would attend the […]

TEHRAN – The Yunus Emre Institute, a Tehran-based Turkish cultural center, will discuss travelogues of Istanbul written by Iranian adventurers during the Qajar period (1796-1925) in a session tomorrow. Iranian scholars Ali-Akbar Shirvani and Mehdi Etemadifard are scheduled to attend the meeting entitled “Istanbul in Travelogues from the Qajar Period”, Persian media reported on Monday. […]

TEHRAN – Iranian director Ebrahim Hatamikia has said that he is eager to see “At Damascus Time”, his latest film on Daesh, screened in the Middle East. Speaking during a press conference after a screening of his film at the 36th Fajr Film Festival in Tehran on Monday, he said that the Daesh threat still […]

The Cinematheque Hall of Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts (TMOCA) screened two films by accomplished French writer and filmmaker Claire Denis, namely ‘White Material’ and ‘35 Shots of Rum’ on October 29 and 31. Denis, 71, is widely considered as one of the strongest voices in contemporary world cinema. Her work has a lasting impact […]

Paintings by top Egyptian artists have shared wall space with hieroglyphs and Pharaonic relics at Cairo’s Egyptian Museum this week in an exhibition highlighting ancient influences on contemporary art. Artists, intellectuals and ambassadors from around the world attended the Saturday opening of ‘A Night With Art at the Egyptian Museum’, organized by the private Art […]

 Iranian feature ‘No. 17 Soheila’ directed by Mahmoud Ghaffari has won the top prize at 13th International Oriental Film Festival of Geneva, Switzerland. Written and directed by Mahmoud Ghaffari, ‘No. 17 Soheila’ won the top prize at 13th FIFOG in competition with six other films from France, Lebanon, Morocco, Egypt and Tunisia. ‘No. 17 Soheila’ is about a […]

The 31st edition of Tehran International Book Fair (TIBF) has kicked off at Imam Khomeini Musalla without the presence of President Rouhani who is ritually in charge of inaugurating the event. Tehran International Book Fair has turned into a landmark book fair in Middle East and Asia after holding 30 editions in a row. Every year […]