TEHRAN — The 31st Tehran International Book Fair hosted a session on Sunday reviewing the publishing market in China. The session was attended by Alex Goh, the Oversea Business Manager at Sinolingua, a member of the China International Publishing Group (CIPG). Sinolingua is the first publisher in China to specialize in Chinese language instruction and […]

TEHRAN – Hutan Shakiba, the star of Iranian musical adaptation of “Oliver Twist” was honored with the special award of the 15th Iranian Stage Actors Celebration on Saturday. Shakiba was not present at the celebration held at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall. The celebration is organized annually by the Iranian Theater Forum to honor best actors of […]

TEHRAN – The Lebanese actor Joseph Salameh who is starring as Abu Omar al-Shishani in Iranian director Ebrahim Hatamikia’s Daesh drama “Damascus Time” is in Tehran to attend several special screenings of the movie. Hadi Hejazifar, another leading actor from the movie, and Hatamikia will also accompany Salameh during the screenings, which have been arranged […]

Iranian short ‘Like a Good Kid’ directed by Arian Vazir Daftari will be Iran’s representative at the Cinéfondation section of the 71st Cannes Film Festival. Directed by Arian Vazir Daftari and produced by Majid Barzegar, ‘Like a Good Kid’ is about a 5-year-old boy named Matin who tells his babysitter Sara a story that makes […]

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 […]