There is a neighborhood in Tehran which still looks like a village. For Thursday, October 12, Zhiwar Tour has planned a brief visit to this historical corner of Tehran known as Deh-e Vanak (Vanak Village).The tour starts at 9:30 am from Sheikh Bahai Square in the vicinity of Deh-e Vanak and ends at 1 am, […]

In the heart of Iran, the historical county of Ardestan is to host a tour organized by the travel company Arand Tour.The cities of Ardestan and Zavareh as well as the desert of Karimabad, all in the province of Isfahan, are on the itinerary.On Thursday, October 12 at 4 pm, a bus takes visitors on […]

Maranjab Desert in Aran-Bidgol County, Isfahan Province, is the destination of a tour planned for October 13.The tour is organized by Gando Tours, a company specializing in eco-tours. The trip starts at 4:45 am from the eastern side of 7-Tir Square and ends at 11:45 pm.Visits to the sand dunes, the historical water well of […]

The Brazil Film Week, organized by Art and Experience Cinematic Group in collaboration with the Brazil Embassy, opened on October 7 at the Iranian Artists Forum in Tehran.Brazili’s Ambassador Rodrigo de Azeredo Santos and the acclaimed film director from the South American country, Roberto Berliner, attended the inauguration of the event, the first of its […]

The 2017 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded to American economist Richard H. Thaler from University of Chicago “for his contributions to behavioral economics”.Thaler, 72, has incorporated psychologically realistic assumptions into analyses of economic decision-making. By exploring the consequences of limited rationality, social preferences, and lack of self-control, he has shown how these […]

Gando Tour has planned an eco-tour to a forest mountain 170 km northeast of Tehran.The mountain is called Arfa’ Kouh. On October 13 the tour will take visitors to the village of Arfa’ Deh at the foot of the mountain and from there to the forest around the mount.Weather is tricky in this time of […]

An international conference on Ibrahim Muteferrika (1670-1745), an Ottoman diplomat, polymath, economist and pubisher of Hungarian descent, known for introducing printing to Turkish domains, is being organized by Turkey and Iran. Book House Institute in Iran and the Institute of Yunus Emreh based in Ankara are organizing the meeting, according to the website of Book […]

Naghsh-e-Jahan Art Gallery in Tehran is scheduled to open an audiovisual exhibition based on the characters of Persian long epic poem ‘Shahnameh’(Book of Kings), October 15.Written by Persian poet Ferdowsi (940-1020), Shahnameh comprises of nearly 60,000 verses, and tells mainly the mythical, and to some extent the historical, past of the Persian Empire from the […]

‘Lucia’ a play written by Iranian playwrights Shahab Mehraban and Sepehr Zamani is currently on stage at Mollavi Hall, Tehran.Directed by Mehraban, the play presents epic stories in a modern setting, Tiwall.com reported.The cast includes Melodi Aram-Nia, Sepehr Zamani, Maryam Naghibi, Mahana Narimani, Sara Shahroudian, Vahid Habibian, and Javad Pouladi.Molavi Hall is located at 16th […]

Photographer Borna Mirahmadian received the best photo award at a photo exhibit held in Athens, Greece. The photo event was held as part of a cultural exchange program between the two countries by the International Federation of Photographic Art (FIAP), ILNA reported. It includes two exhibitions. The first one is underway in Athens and the […]