academy Archives - Iran News Daily https://irannewsdaily.com/tag/academy/ Tue, 26 Jun 2018 09:54:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.4 https://irannewsdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-iranlogo-32x32.png academy Archives - Iran News Daily https://irannewsdaily.com/tag/academy/ 32 32 Academy invites 3 Iranians as new members https://irannewsdaily.com/2018/06/academy-invites-3-iranians-as-new-members/ https://irannewsdaily.com/2018/06/academy-invites-3-iranians-as-new-members/#respond Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:00:49 +0000 https://irannewsdaily.com/?p=30250  Three Iranian film personalities have been invited as members by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as the Oscars awards body acts to boost diversity with 928 member invitations. This is a record number of invitations by the Academy, beating last year’s record of 774 new members. The expansion is said to be […]

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 Three Iranian film personalities have been invited as members by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as the Oscars awards body acts to boost diversity with 928 member invitations.

This is a record number of invitations by the Academy, beating last year’s record of 774 new members.

The expansion is said to be an effort for more diversification. According to Variety, the new invited class is 49% female, which brings the total representation of women to 31% – a considerable boost compared to the 28% representation in 2017. Meanwhile, the representation of people of color has increased from 13% in 2017 to 16%.

The Academy membership invitations for 2018 have been extended to Iranian cinematographer Hossein Jafarian, for his contribution in Asghar Farhadi’s ‘The Salesman’, as well as Ali Asgari and Farnoush Samadi for ‘Gaze’ and ‘The Silence’ in the short film and feature animation section.

Other notable actors invited include Timothee Chalamet, Emilia Clarke, Lily James, Evan Rachel Wood and Dave Chappelle.

India received 20 invitations this year, including Shah Rukh Khan, Aditya Chopra, Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee and Naseeruddin Shah.

J.K. Rowling, Emily V. Gordon, Jonathan Nolan, Joe Robert Cole and Virgil Williams are among the most distinguished writers invited by the Academy.

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]]>  Iranian and Lebanese officials held a meeting in Beirut, discussing ways to boost bilateral cooperation on academic issues.

Mohsen Rahimi, the representative of Health Ministry in educational affairs, held a meeting with the Lebanese University president Fouad Ayoub with Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon Mohammad FathAli in attendance.

Given the great cultural interactions between the two countries, the Lebanese University is willing to expand its academic exchanges with Iranian universities, said Fouad Ayoub, adding that some 75,000 students are studying in 17 different colleges of the university.

Presenting a report on the educational status of universities and the number of medical students in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mohsen Rahimi provided an explanation for the international programs of Iran’s medical universities.

Currently students from 40 different countries of the world are studying in Iran, he said, adding that considering the qualitative and quantitative potentials of Iranian universities, there is a complete readiness for academic communications at the highest levels with Lebanon.

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