TEHRAN– Germany in support of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) has contributed €1 million for food assistance to 30,000 most vulnerable Afghan and Iraqi refugees living in Iran. This follows Germany’s contribution of €1 million earlier this year within the country’s continued support for WFP’s efforts. The new contribution will enable WFP to meet […]

TEHRAN – Czech writer Vaclav Havel’s 1968 play “Guardian Angel” will be staged by the Iranian student troupe Mana in Tehran. The troupe is currently rehearsing along with its director Sadeq Vafai who previously staged Havel’s “Audience” and “Leaving” in Tehran. They are scheduled to begin performing at the Zolfaqari Hall of the Arasbaran Cultural […]

TEHRAN – The Book City Institute in Tehran and two Italian universities plan to organize a conference on Persian poet Sadi (C. 1213-1291) and Italian scholar and poet Petrarch (1304-1374) in 2018. A number of Iranian and Italian experts are expected to attend the conference in Tehran on April 18 and 19 to discuss affinities […]

TEHRAN – Ahmad Aqvam-Shokuhi, a veteran naqareh player who performed during religious rituals at the holy shrine of Imam Reza (AS) for 72 years, died of natural causes in Mashhad on Wednesday. Naqareh is a long wind instrument that is played from minarets or cities’ towers. The 90-year old Aqvam-Shokuhi was honored for his lifetime […]

TEHRAN – Iranian photographer Davud Ameri has won the CEF Silver Medal at the Trofeo Gipuzkoa Internacional, an international photography salon in San Sebastian, Spain. He received the honor for his single photo “The Place I Lost My Leg”, the organizers announced on Friday. Ameri fellow photographers Mohammadreza Masumi and Saman Purkhoshamuz received honorable mentions […]

TEHRAN – Winners of the 11th Tehran International Cartoon Biennial were honored with awards in three sections of thematic, caricature, and free cartoon during a ceremony on Friday. A total of 730 works from among 4,000 cartoons were submitted to the secretariat of the 11th Tehran International Cartoon Biennial which wrapped up on December 15. […]

TEHRAN – Iran’s Foreign Language Academy Award entry for 2018, Narges Abyar’s Iran-Iraq war drama ‘Breath’, did not make the Academy’s shortlist that was announced on Thursday. The Academy on Thursday announced the nine films that will compete for a nomination for the best foreign-language film Oscar. Iran’s entry, Narges Abyar’s Iran-Iraq war drama ‘Breath’, […]

TEHRAN– Winners of the 4th Navaye Khorram Music Festival, an event dedicated to child and young adult musicians, were honored at the closing ceremony in Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on Dec. 15. The festival is named after Homayun Khorram, a prominent Iranian composer and violin virtuoso who died in January 2013.

Two couples from Qashqai tribe tied the knot on the sidelines of the 9th Pars Tourism Festival in the southern city of Shiraz, Fars Province.  Dressed in beautiful costumes, Qashqai men danced to their traditional music and celebrated the wedding. The Qashqai are a Turkish-speaking tribe of pastoral nomads in southern Iran. They migrate between […]

Mehrdad Oskouei’s award-winning and much admired ‘Starless Dreams’ has been screened at 24 cinemas across France. The French Cinema Center selects a number of films produced in the European country and the rest of the world to be displayed in various French cinemas during what is called ‘Month of Documentary’. Iranian director Mehrdad Oskouei’s portrait […]