The head of Tehran council’s Cultural Heritage and Tourism Committee said on Monday that a mummified body had been found at the site of a former shah’s tomb, during construction work at Shah-Abdol-Azim shrine. Hassan Khalilabadi told state-run IRNA news agency that the mummy found is probably of Reza Shah, founder of the Pahlavi dynasty. Since […]

TEHRAN — The state secretary of the Slovakia Ministry of Culture, Konrád Rigó, and Iranian Deputy Culture Minister for Artistic Affairs Seyyed Mojtaba Hosseini met in Tehran at the Niavaran Cultural Center on Sunday. The expansion of cultural relations was discussed at the meeting, which was also attended by Slovak Ambassador Lubomir Golian and the […]

TEHRAN – Iranian photographer Mehdi Ruhi has won the CPNO Bronze Medal at the 1st Zhuhai International Exhibition of Photography in China. He received the honor for “Habitant of Wall 4”, a black and white photo that shows a man at foot of a tall wall, upon which a cat is walking. The CPNO Gold […]

 Iranian director Marjan Alizadeh will be joining the rest of decision makers for the 2018 Hot Docs Festival to select the best documentaries to compete in the Canadian festival. Iranian film director and writer Marjan Alizadeh has been chosen to join the decision makers for the 2018 Hot Docs Festival in Canada. Alizadeh is the […]

Iranian actress Mina Sadati was named best supporting actress for her part in ‘Searing Summer’, at the Beijing International Film Festival. Actress Mina Sadati, who starred in ‘Searing Summer’, receives the Best Supporting Actress award presented by actress Shu Qi at the awarding ceremony of Tiantan Award 2018 during the 8th Beijing International Film Festival […]

TEHRAN – Persian literature aficionados and literati from across Iran came together at the mausoleum of Persian poet Sadi in Shiraz on Friday to celebrate National Sadi Day. Speaking at the ceremony, Iranian philosopher Gholamhossein Ebrahimi-Dinani called Sadi a poet unique in the power of imagination and wisdom. The director of the Center for the […]

TEHRAN – The music duo Erdal Erzincan and Kayhan Kalhor will be in Istanbul this week to perform three concerts in the Turkish city. Turkish baglama master Erzincan and world-renowned Iranian kamancheh virtuoso Kalhor will give their first performance on Monday at the TBA, Kalhor has announced in a post on his Facebook page. They […]

TEHRAN – A selection of peoms from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by the Persian poet Omar Khayyam Neyshaburi (1048-1131) has been published in Hungarian. The collection, which also carries the English translation and Persian texts of the poems, has been translated under the auspices of the Embassy of Iran, the embassy reported on Thursday. […]

TEHRAN – The Swedish-speaking Finnish cineaste Jorn Donner who is most famous for his collaboration as a producer in Ingmar Bergman’s films such as “Fanny and Alexander” says that good filmmakers are able to eliminate the borders between people by means of their films that make an important impression outside their national boundaries. He made […]

TEHRAN – Iran celebrated its 120 years of national cinema history at Tehran’s Felestin Cinema on Thursday during the opening ceremony of the 36th Fajr International Film Festival. The ceremony was attended by a large number of Iranian cineastes and foreign guests as veteran actor Reza Kianian cut a cake prepared for the celebration. In […]