Busboys and Poets, a cultural center in Washington DC, has announced its plan to organize a poetry session on January 22, during which a group of poets will recite their poems in criticism of U.S. sanctions on Iran.  Some well-known figures in American and Iranian poetry such as Charles Bernstein, Pierre Joris and Sepideh Jodeyri […]

The Cinema Organization of Iran (COI) has postponed a Polish film festival in Tehran indefinitely in response to Poland’s decision to host a U.S.-led anti-Iran summit. The postponement was announced on Sunday by COI director Hossein Entezami on Twitter. “Iranians have warmly received various nations, especially Polish people, during hard times,” he said. “A guest […]

Three Iranian short films, including ‘The Pass’ and ‘Birthday Night’, have made it into the final round of competition at the 5th ‘Alemlere Rahmet’ – Mercy to the Universe International Short Film Competition in Turkey. ‘Birthday Night’ by Omid Shams, ‘Oblivion’ by Fatemeh Mohammadi, and ‘The Pass’ by Pouria Pishvaee and Omid Shams, have made it […]

 Iran’s Department of Environment (DOE) is compiling a national comprehensive plan to protect the seals living in the Caspian Sea. According to the news website of Department of Environment of the Islamic Republic of Iran (DOE), Parvin Farshchi, the Deputy Director of DOE’s Marine Environmental Department said on Saturday that “in cooperation with the marine […]

 The 6th Khayyam International Exhibition of Photography honored top entries during its opening ceremony on Friday. In the Open Monochrome section, Hadi Dehqanpur from Iran received the FIAP Gold Medal for his photo “Zebra” and Holger Buecker from Germany won the Kamal-ol-Molk Gold Trophy for “Above and Below”. Cheng Jungang from China won the FIAP […]

 The New York Times has included Iran in its 2019 edition of Places to Go list, noting the country takes “the top spot.” The inclusion comes among escalating tensions between Iran and the United States as Prescient Donald Trump pulled America out of the Iran nuclear deal in May 2017 and restored sanctions against the […]

The much-debated Netflix series 13 Reasons Why has been renewed for a 13-episode third season.  On Wednesday morning, Netflix announced the news with a short teaser on social media. The series’ showrunner Brian Yorkey will return in the same capacity. Yorkey, along with Joy Gorman, Mandy Teefey, Kristel Laiblin, Tom McCarthy, Selena Gomez and Steve Golin, will return as […]

Iranian short ‘Reverence’ directed by Sogol Rezvani will be screened at Santa Barbara International Film Festival, which will be held in Santa Barbara, California, from Jan. 30 to Feb. 9. Making its debut at the international level, Reverence will vie for awards in a heated rivalry among some 100 films representing different countries across the […]

The jury of the 9th Ammar Popular Film Festival (APFF) announced on Thursday that no feature fiction movie deserved the best film award as they awarded “Special Award” by Seyyed Ali Seyyedi an honorable mention. “Special Award” is about a young boy who dreams of having a bicycle, but his family cannot afford his wish. […]

 Iranian artist Sorayya Mohammadi has used a number of ancient Iranian animal motifs to create her latest collection of copper embossing art. She has carried out an in-depth study on art common among the Scythians, the Eurasian nomads that inhabited large areas of the western and central Eurasian Steppe from about the 9th century BC […]