Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh were skeptical on Tuesday about their chances of ever going home to Myanmar, even though the government there has given an assurance it would accept people verified as refugees.More than half a million Rohingya have fled from a Myanmar military crackdown in Rakhine State launched in late August that has been […]

The 20th commemoration ceremony of Hafez, renowned Iranian poet, will be held at the Tehran branch of Kharazmi University on October 11. During the ceremony, sponsored jointly by the Iranian National Commission for UNESCO, Society of Hafez Fans, and the Faculty of Literature and Human Science of Kharazmi University, university instructors and scholars will speak […]

Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM) will host the 7th International Congress of the Spanish Society of Iranian Studies (SEI) October 16-17.Scholars from Iran, Spain, Turkey, Georgia and Russia are to attend the meeting at the Autonomous University of Madrid, Mehr News Agency reported.SEI is organizing the congress in collaboration with the Iranian Embassy in Madrid. […]

Catalonia’s leader faced mounting pressure Friday from all sides, with hardliners in the separatist movement demanding he declare independence from Spain once and for all. Spain’s government and the European Union, on the other hand, want him to abandon the secession plans altogether.Spain’s deputy prime minister blamed Catalan president Carles Puigdemont for creating such economic […]

Iranian Illustrators Society is holding three parallel exhibitions in Tehran on the occasion of the Illustration National Week in late October.The society is planning to commemorate the occasion from October 29-November 6. During the period, “we will hold three exhibitions. ‘We Are Illustrators’ will be the main show,” said the scientific secretary of the event, […]

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 […]

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 […]

A bronze sculpture of the late legendary Iranian wrestler and national hero Jahan Pahlavan Takhti was unveiled at the United States Sports Academy’s American Sport Art Museum & Archives (ASAMA) in Daphne, Alabama on Wednesday. The three-foot, 110-pound, created by sculptor Dr. Alireza Khaghani, was presented by the North American Iranian Friendship Society (NAIFS) to […]

The first International Art Festival for Persian Speakers in Europe, slated for January 2018 in Paris, has selected the humorist couple, Mehrab Qasemkhani and Shaghayegh Dehghan as the jury for the stand-up comedy section.Those interested can submit at most five two-minute recordings to the festival. Decided by the jury, only 20 videos will be selected […]

TEHRAN – New research is underway that could help scientists combat the most lethal of cancers: pancreatic cancer. Tal Danino, a professor at the Data Science Institute, is conducting research that could help scientists combat the most lethal of cancers: pancreatic cancer. In a recent study, working with a team of researchers, Danino demonstrated that […]