Over ten years ago researchers from the Bible Archaeology, Search & Exploration (BASE) Institute raised possibility of Noah’s Ark may be landing in Iran. Now, news by several media outlets broke that the institute has found strong evidence in a mountainous area in northern Iran, which may be remnants of the famed ark. “The BASE […]

Tehran is ranked second after Dubai in terms of tourism market size and share of the country’s GDP from the span of 2007-2017, according to the latest World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) report published in October. Based on the report, the travel & tourism contribution to GDP in the Iranian capital has become more […]

 Mashhad will host an international culinary festival from November 28 to 30. Exhibitors from various countries including Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey, Qatar, Iraq, Kuwait, Malaysia and Georgia will be attending the event, ISNA reported on Tuesday. Some 50 stalls will be set up for the gastronomy festival, which will be held at Homa Hotel. […]

Peyman Maadi was picked as best director for his Iranian drama “Bomb, a Love Story” at the 6th International Bosphorus Film Festival in Istanbul, the organizers announced on Saturday. Maadi is also the writer of the screenplay for the film, whose story is set in 1988 at the height of the Iran-Iraq war as Tehran […]

The Children’s Book Council of Iran has nominated author Farhad Hassanzadeh and illustrator Farshid Shafiei for the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Awards. The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) in Basel, Switzerland presents the awards to a living author and illustrator whose complete works have made a lasting contribution to children’s literature. Hassanzadeh […]

The feature movie ‘Yeva’, written and directed by Iranian-Armenian Anahid Abad, has been accepted into the Spectrum section of 28th FilmFestival Cottbus in Germany. The 28th edition of FilmFestival Cottbus in Germany will host the screening of Iranian feature ‘Yeva’ in its Spectrum section. Written and directed by Iranian-Armenian Anahid Abad, ‘Yeva’ is the story of a […]

A lineup of Iranian movies has been selected to go on screen in different sections of the Asian Film Festival Barcelona underway in the Spanish city, the organizers have announced. Hossein Namazi’s debut feature film “Appendix” and “The Villa Tenants” by Monir Qeidi are competing in the official section. Mohammad-Hossein Mahdavian’s “The Midday Event”, Ramin […]

 Kish Free Zone Organisation has officially joined the UN World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), a United Nations agency responsible for the promotion of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism. Deputy Director of the Kish Free Zone Organisation, Alireza Ghaedian, said this is the first time that an Iranian commercial-industrial free zone is joining the World Tourism Organisation. “During […]

Scholars from Iran and Italy will convene to share ideas on and conduct a comparative analysis of works by Persian poet Sadi Shirazi and Italian poet Francesco Petrarca. A two-day event, supported by Iranian Book City Institute’s Cultural Center, the Shiraz-based Center for Studies on Sadi and the University of Bologna, will be held at […]

TEHRAN — Fatemeh Motamed-Arya, the star of the acclaimed Iranian movies “The Blue-Veiled” and “Gilaneh”, has been selected for a jury of the 59th Thessaloniki International Film Festival underway in the Greek city, the organizers have announced. She will be judging the films competing in the International Competition section along with Sandra den Hamer, the […]