TEHRAN – Filmmaker Alireza Jahanifar has recently completed a documentary that recounts the life story of Marjan Nazqelichi, a Turkmen woman who was the governor of Bandar Turkaman, the northeastern Iranian town with a Turkmen population. The idea of making the documentary titled “Nazqelichi” entered Jahanifar’s mind in April 2014, when she was appointed as […]

Iranian Health Minister Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi left Tehran for Geneva to attend the 71st World Health Assembly. According to the official website of WHO, the main functions of the World Health Assembly are to determine the policies of the Organization, supervise financial policies, and review and approve the proposed programme budget. This year’s Health Assembly […]

TEHRAN – The virtuoso of the Persian stringed instruments, Hossein Alizadeh, has praised Ali (Alexander) Rahbari for performing his composition “My Mother Persia” along with the Antalya State Symphony Orchestra. Alizadeh was Rahbari’s special guest at the performance held at Aspendos Hall in Antalya on April 27. Iranian vocalist Mohammad Motamedi accompanied his fellow conductor […]

TEHRAN – For many foreigners, traveling to Iran or other Muslim-majority countries are not complete without wandering around downtown streets and labyrinthine bazaars with savoring local street food. More specifically, during the holy month of Ramadan, traveling or swaying around may come with some restraints and inconveniences due to the fact that Muslims fast during […]

 Iranian short animation ‘Bystander’ directed by Sheyda Kashi will vie at SAGA: Adelaide International Women’s Film Festival in Australia. ‘Bystander’ is about an old man who is living behind a window from where he sees a dark world and remembers his past when he was an active revolutionary. The 8-minute animation had previously received two […]

The 2018 Cannes jury announced the awards of the festival’s 71st edition, with Japan’s ‘Shoplifters’ winning Palme d’Or and Iran’s Panahi sharing best screenplay prize for ‘3 Faces’. Under the presidency of Cate Blanchett, the jury included filmmakers Ava DuVernay and Denis Villeneuve and actors Kristen Stewart and Léa Seydoux, as well as Chinese actor Chang Chen, French director Robert Guédiguian, […]

TEHRAN – The 26th International Holy Quran Exhibition opened at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Mosalla on Saturday during a special ceremony attended by Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Abbas Salehi and a number of cultural figures. Copies of the Holy Quran published by various Iranian and international publishers have been put on view at the […]

 Totally some 59,000 houses should be reconstructed in quake-hit Kermanshah rural and urban areas, among which building of some 31,000 houses have been completed, said Reza Khajei, an official with Islamic Revolution Housing Foundation. On November 12, 2017 a destructive magnitude 7.3 earthquake hit Kermanshah. Some 90,000 houses were partly or completely damaged by the […]

The Brazilian video and film festival Anima Mundi will screen six Iranian animated pieces in the competition section of its 26th edition. The Iranian animated pieces that have made it into the main competition section of the 26th Anima Mundi film festival include: ‘Nobody’ by Elham Toroghi, ‘Polychrome’ by Negareh Halimi, ‘Mr. Deer’ by Mojtaba […]

TEHRAN — A number of Persian scholars, poets and officials gathered at the mausoleum of Omar Khayyam (1048-1131) in his homeland of Neyshabur on Friday to celebrate the national day of the great Iranian mathematician, astronomer and poet. The city also hosted several other meetings, seminars and workshops of photography, calligraphy and sculptures on Khayyam. […]