TEHRAN – South Korean actress Lee Young-ae has donated 50,000,000 Korean won (about $45,000) to earthquake relief efforts in Iran, where she is hugely popular. The donation was made via check handed over to Iranian Ambassador Hassan Taherian in Seoul by Korea Foundation for Persons with Disabilities Chairman Lee Seong-gyu, the Embassy of Iran in […]

Marathon is a surreal playwright which is formed by creating a no-place, no-time setting; a situation which perhaps doesn’t have objective existence and it can be said that all people have experienced it. Arash Asgari, the director and writer of the playwright says, “Usually one of the basic difficulties of playwrights is lack of content […]

TEHRAN – Iranian actor Mohammad Pursattar died due to heart failure at his home in Tehran on Thursday morning. He was 78. He mostly appeared in a number of Iranian historical, religious TV series including “The Men of Angelos” and “Prophet Joseph (AS)”, both by Farajollah Salahshur, and “Mokhtarnameh” by Davud Mirbaqeri. His funeral procession […]

TEHRAN – ‘Release from heaven’ was awarded the best animation award at Oniros film awards. ‘Release from heaven’ directed by Ali Noori Oskouei won the best animation award of the October 2017 Monthly Edition of Oniros film awards. Oniros Film Awards is a monthly and annual IMDb qualifying competition based in La Thuile, Italy, which […]

TEHRAN _ Manoochehr Ashtiani has PhDs in sociology and philosophy. He wrote his philosophy dissertation under the supervision of Karl Löwith (Heidegger’s student and critic) and Dieter Henrich (one of the four great contemporary German philosophers); and his sociology dissertation under the supervision of Ernst Topitsch (Austrian philosopher and sociologist and member of Vienna Circle). […]

TEHRAN — Legendary Iranian vocalist Shahram Nazeri and the Kamkars will join together in a concert to raise funds for the victims of the devastating earthquake that hit their homeland Kermanshah in western Iran on Sunday. “The concert is scheduled to be held at the Grand Hall of the Interior Ministry in Tehran, and all […]

Sierra Leone hopes to raise millions of dollars for development projects by auctioning a huge uncut diamond, believed to be one of the world’s largest, in New York in December. It will be the government’s second attempt to sell the 709-carat (142-gram) gem, known as “Peace Diamond”, after it rejected the highest bid of $7.8 […]

An exhibition of 200 photos from Iran’s tourist attractions taken by Turkish photographers opened in Ankara, Turkey, on Oct. 24. The event marks the 40th foundation anniversary of Ankara Photographers Association (AFSAD), IRNA reported. A total of 21 photographers captured the sights during their seven-day journey to Tehran, Isfahan, Yazd and Shiraz. During their trip, […]

16A floor mosaic from one of Roman Emperor Caligula’s opulent private ships, which was stolen after World War Two, is on its way back to Italy from the US where it has been recovered from a private collection. The 1st century AD marble, serpentine and porphyry mosaic came from one of Caligula’s ceremonial vessels, which […]

TEHRAN – “Release from Heaven” by Iranian director Ali Nuri Oskui was crowned best animation at the Fort McMurray International Film Festival in Canada last Sunday. The acclaimed film is about a female writer and teacher, who accompanies two of her students on an inner spiritual journey in a war-torn country. The Animation Day in […]