‘A View From the Bridge’, a play written by American playwright Arthur Miller and directed by Kasra Mohammadi is performed at Naser Khosrow Hall. The play is set in the 1950s in a neighborhood near the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. It represents the lives of some people who are constantly changing.  In his work, […]

Festive celebration dedicated to the 26th anniversary of the Independence Day of the Republic of Uzbekistan was held at “Uzbekiston” Palace of international forums. It was attended by representatives of the state and public organizations, members of the government, employees of ministries and departments, leading workers of various socio-economic spheres, heads of foreign embassies and […]

TEHRAN – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said a “developed” and “stable” world of Islam would lead to the global development and stability. “We have all reached consensus that ‘World of Islam’ is a crucial and effective part of the global system and having a capable, developed and stable World of Islam would lead to universal […]

An estimated 270,000 Rohingya have sought refuge in Bangladesh over the past two weeks, the UN refugee agency said on Friday, announcing a dramatic jump in numbers fleeing violence in neighboring Myanmar’s Rakhine State.A rights group said satellite images showed about 450 buildings had been burned down in a Myanmar border town largely inhabited by […]

Amnesty international has censured Bahrain for using “an array of repression tools,” including torture and sexual abuse, in its brutal crackdown on dissent, blaming the silence of the Western states, especially the US and the UK, for a sharp rise in Manama’s use of violence. In a report, titled ‘No one can protect you’: Bahrain’s year […]

TEHRAN – The seventh edition of the Tehran Contemporary Sculpture Biennial opened at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMCA) on Tuesday after a six-year hiatus. “Art biennials are the beating hearts of the artists’ community in each society,” the secretary of the biennial, Kurosh Golnari, said during an opening ceremony, which was attended by […]

Churches in Jerusalem al-Quds have lashed out at the Israeli regime for its “systematic” attempts to change the occupied city’s historical status quo and “undermine” the Christian community there. In a joint statement released on Monday, the heads of the Catholic, Ethiopian, Greek Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Lutheran, Syrian and other churches condemned a recent Israeli court […]

In Fiji’s isolated villages, custom holds that a visitor needs to ask permission to enter by offering a tangled bundle of kava roots as sevusevu, a gesture of respect. By Diane Selkirk 31 August 2017 As sailors planning to spend a couple of months exploring Fiji’s outer islands, my family of three needed to be […]