Arand Tour is planning a forest trekking program in Rudbar County, Gilan Province.At 5 in the morning on November 2 a bus will pick up visitors at Argentina Square. After Tehran-Qazvin Highway the bus will turn north toward Gilan and run along Qazvin-Rasht Road till it arrives in the rural district of Noqlebar in Rudbar.Visitors […]

Saveh Lake and the nearby Aliabad Caravanserai in central Iran are to be visited in a tour organized by Gando Tour for November 2.Saveh Lake is located 40 km north of central city of Qom, 85 km south of Tehran. It covers 240 square kilometers and is hemmed by the Alborz Mountain chain to the […]

A three-day tour of sites in East Azarbaijan Province is organized for November 1-3.It is a railroad trip to Tabriz, capital of East Azarbaijan. Visits to the Blue Mosque, Tabriz Bazaar and Constitution House are on the itinerary. The latter was used as a meeting place for leaders, activists and sympathizers of the Constitution Movement […]

An eco-tour to Sanandaj and Kamyaran counties, Kurdistan Province, is planned by Zhiwar Tour for November 1-3.The tour begins at night and will arrive in the city of Sanandaj early in the morning of November 2. The journey continues toward Kamyaran County through a charming roadway until it ends in the village of Dulab.In the […]

A new study has found out musicians outperform others on memory tasks, including the critical ability to retain and process information.It is hard to overstate the importance of working memory, the ability to retain information even as one is processing it. For a new fact to have an impact, one needs to be able to […]

Actor, screenwriter and movie director Peyman Moaadi has been selected as one of the five-member jury of the International Competition Section at the 58th Thessaloniki International Film Festival in Greece. The other jury members for the section include Palestinian director, screenwriter and producer Annemarie Jacir, Czech director Karel Och, French sound designer Bruno Tarrière and […]

British-based shipwreck hunter David Mearns has found a navigation tool confirmed as the world’s oldest astrolabe discovered.David Mearns found the bronze disc during a dive on a Portuguese shipwreck off the coast of Oman in 2014 but said Warwick University in Coventry, UK, had only recently confirmed what it was after laser scans revealed etches […]

‘Orsi Khaneh’ building designed by Iranian group Keivani Architects Studio is among the final nominees for the 10th Middle East Architect Awards, slated for Nov. 22, in Dubai.The building is a residential apartment block located in Tehran’s Gisha District. It features faceted window frames and stained glass.The elements of traditional houses in Kashan (a city […]

The smell of gunpowder still lingered at Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, on Oct. 24, hours after China’s Cai Guo-Qiang, famed for his explosive art, put the finishing touch to his show. Better used to the work of long-dead painters, this is the first time that the museum has welcomed an artist-in-residence, whose internationally-acclaimed contemporary […]

Acclaimed master of contemporary painting, Seyyed Asadollah Shariatpanahi, 79, inaugurates today a café gallery in his hometown Semnan, capital of Semnan Province.Last month, Shariatpanahi said in an interview with Semnan-based weekly Bayan-e Mardom, “We want to set up a gallery near where people come to have tea or coffee. Thus, whether want it or not, […]