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International Cheetah Day: Let’s save the fastest beauties 04 Dec 2017

International Cheetah Day: Let’s save the fastest beauties

Asiatic Cheetah which is considered to be a sleek and beautiful cat throughout history is the fastest land-animal that can accelerate from 0 to 96.6 km/h in under three seconds. Asiatic Cheetah is the most distinctive animal subspecies in Iran. Some of the most devastating habitat losses affected cheetahs’ population throughout Asia. We will never […]

Permanent gallery set up for miniaturist Ali Esfarjani at University of Tehran 03 Dec 2017

Permanent gallery set up for miniaturist Ali Esfarjani at University of Tehran

TEHRAN – A permanent gallery has opened for a collection by master miniaturist Ali Esfarjani at the Negarestan Garden Museum of the University of Tehran. His widow, Fatemeh Karimnejad, cut the ribbon to launch the exhibition as his daughter, Shahrzad, UT Deputy Director for Cultural Affairs Majid Sarsangi and film expert Akbar Aalami attended the […]

German documentarian Andreas Ewels invited to Cinema Verite 03 Dec 2017

German documentarian Andreas Ewels invited to Cinema Verite

TEHRAN – The German documentarian and journalist Andreas Ewels has been invited to attend the 11th edition of Cinema Verite, the Iranian international festival for documentary films, the organizers announced on Saturday. Ewels is mostly known for his documentaries on nature, wildlife and environmental issues. He has made over 200 documentaries in about 100 countries. […]

Book on elites of Iranian modern art unveiled 03 Dec 2017

Book on elites of Iranian modern art unveiled

TEHRAN – The celebrated art expert Alireza Sami-Azar, who is also the director of the Tehran Auction, unveiled his book on a number of significant Iranian modern artists in Tehran on Friday. The book “Birth of Iranian Modernism” has recently been released by Nazar Publications. Visual Arts Office director Majid Mollanoruzi and Nazar Publications director […]

Watercolors by Iranian-Armenian artists on display at Tehran gallery 03 Dec 2017

Watercolors by Iranian-Armenian artists on display at Tehran gallery

TEHRAN – An exhibition of watercolors by a number of Iranian-Armenian artists is currently underway at Tehran’s Shirin Gallery. Works by Sumbat Derkiverqian, Avak Hayrapetian, Yervand Nehapetian, Yassayi Shajanian and Michael (Misha) Shahbazian have been selected for the showcase. The exhibition will be running until December 14 at the gallery located at No. 5, 13th […]

Ceramic works by Iranian artist on view in Nepal 03 Dec 2017

Ceramic works by Iranian artist on view in Nepal

TEHRAN – The Siddhartha Art Gallery in Kathmandu, Nepal is showcasing a number of ceramic works by Iranian artist Abbas Akbari at an exhibition entitled “Initiation II”. Ceramic works, which were created during two workshops during September and November by artists from Nepal, Georgia, Denmark and Pakistan, are also on display at the exhibition curated […]

Cultural Official Hails Leader’s “Timely” Letters to Western Youth 03 Dec 2017

Cultural Official Hails Leader’s “Timely” Letters to Western Youth

TEHRAN  – The two letters Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei sent to the youth in Western countries in 2015 came at the right time, an Iranian cultural official stressed, saying they helped portray the true image of Islam to the world. Ayatollah Khamenei’s letters to the Western youth were released at […]

Hushang Moradi Kermani honored at University of Cambridge 03 Dec 2017

Hushang Moradi Kermani honored at University of Cambridge

TEHRAN – Celebrated Iranian children’s author Hushang Moradi Kermani was honored for his lifetime achievements at the University of Cambridge, England on Friday. The Iranian ambassador to London, Hamid Baeidinejad, presented him a plaque of honor on the sidelines of the two-day International Conference of the Research Initiative on Teaching Persian Language and Literature, which […]

“Iran’s News Agencies” at Iranian bookstores 02 Dec 2017

“Iran’s News Agencies” at Iranian bookstores

TEHRAN – “Iran’s News Agencies”, co-written by journalists Reza Moqadasi and Farshad Mehdipur, has been published in Tehran. Published by the Media Studies and Planning Office, an affiliate of the Press Affairs Department of Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, the book reviews the history, diplomacy and the role of news agencies in Iran.

Tehran museum to screen two films by Claire Denis 02 Dec 2017

Tehran museum to screen two films by Claire Denis

TEHRAN — The cinematheque of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMCA) will be screening two films by French filmmaker Claire Denis this week. “35 Shots of Rum”, a 2008 film that portrays the relationship between a middle-aged widower and a lovely, devoted daughter, will be screened on Sunday, TMCA announced in a press release […]