Actress Elnaz Shakerdoust together with actor Amir Jafari will lead the play ‘Gom-o-Gour’ (literally meaning to get lost) on stage from November 12.Shakerdoust, who is quite popular in Iran cinema for her roles in commercial films, is taking part in a theatrical work for the first time.She first appeared on screens in 2005. Her noteworthy […]

Painter Mahsa Latifi, 30, is presenting her critical views of contemporary humankind at Atashzad Art Gallery in Tehran. Under the banner of ‘Ignorance’ the exhibit is the artist’s attempt to portray modern human beings struggling with their contradictory rationalism. In her works Latifi is sharing her take on the identity crisis troubling humans today, according […]

Sistan-Baluchestan University’s Art Faculty in collaboration with the Society of Cultural Heritage of Zabol is planning the first International Festival of Mythical Characters for Esfand, the last month on the Iranian calendar (February 20-March 20).“A carnival of puppets of Shahnameh’s mythical characters will march through the city of Zabol (capital of Sistan-Baluchestan Provicne),” Mehr News […]

The play ‘The History Boys’ written by the British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author Alan Bennett is to go on stage on November 13 at Iranshahr Theater Hall.The performance is directed by Ashkan Kheil-Nejad and has Mohsen Ablohasani, Majid Aqakarimi, Mehrdad Babaei, Sina Balahang, Sajad Hamidian, Hamed Rasouli, Hamid Rahimi, Mahdi Shahedi, Maryam Nour-Mohammadi, and […]

The travelogue of British geographer George Passman Tate across the regions of Sistan and Baluchestan has been translated into Persian by researcher of Sistan history, Hassan Ahmadi Karviq. The original English title of the travelogue is ‘The Frontiers of Baluchistan: Travels on the Borders of Persia and Afghanistan.’ It is a monograph authored by Tate […]

A collection of photo paintings by Kaveh Golestan, Iranian photojournalist, is on display at Tate Modern Museum of London. The museum will show 20 vintage prints of Golestan’s photos, shot between the years 1975-1977, portraying the darker side of society, Honaronline reported. Born in Tehran, 1950, Kaveh Golestan, is the son of filmmaker and writer […]

09A collection of architectural models replicated from rare and historical buildings and edifices in Iran are on show at Sheikh Hadi Gallery. There are 70 scale models including towers, villas, monuments, edifices and religious centers of historical significance. They are created by Hassan Rezakhani, 71, who has taught many architects, engineers and designers over  the […]

TEHRAN – Iran’s Book City Institute and Leiden University in the Netherlands have teamed up to honor J.T.P. De Bruijn, a distinguished Dutch expert on the Persian mystic poet Sanai (1087-1131). The honoring ceremony will take place at the university on Friday, the institute announced in a press release on Tuesday. A number of Iranian […]

TEHRAN  – As the annual congregation of Shiite Muslims in commemoration of Arbaeen, the 40th day after the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein (AS), is reaching its climax, thousands of Iranians are crossing the border every hour to reach the Iraqi city of Karbala. Iraq has so far granted around 2.5 million Iranian applicants visas […]

In an art exhibition held recently in Bandar-e-Anzali, a port city in Gilan Province, Hossein Aghaeipour, a young self-taught painter, displayed his creative ‘Map Art’ paintings. In his innovative paintings, on show as ‘Another Look’, Aghaeipour extracted portraits from maps of various cities across the globe and painted them on canvas, Honaronline reported. “City roads […]