TEHRAN – Artist Monir Farmanfarmaian, famous for her mirror mosaics and geometric drawings, has donated a collection of 50 artworks to the University of Tehran. The collection will be placed in a special section at the Negarestan Garden Museum of the University of Tehran and will be open for viewing beginning in mid-December, UT Deputy […]

Iranian short animated piece ‘Bystander’, directed by Sheyda Kashi, will be screened at the 2017 edition of Madurai Film Festival in India. The 19th Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2017 has put the Iranian short film of the list of selected films. Hosting a total of 50 films, the international event will kick […]

Born in 1805 in the western city of Sanandaj, Kordestan province, Mah Sharaf Khanoum Mastoureh Ardalan was a noble woman of her time and the first Iranian female historian. She was a Kurdish poet, historian and writer at the time when many women were illiterate and were never permitted to go to maktabkhaneh (old schools […]

TEHRAN – Iranian animated short movie ‘Unveiling Ceremony’ directed by Mehdi Boustani has been accepted to vie at VideoBabel Festival in Peru. This festival ranks thirteenth in the world and second in South America. This is the thirteenth international screening of the film and its second show in South America. The 8th edition of the […]

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 […]