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Iranian girl wins first prize at Japan’s JQA drawing contest

reporter 1222 — Tue, 14 Aug 2018 11:14:14 +0000

12-year-old Nasrin Mahboub won first prize at the international section of the 18th JQA International Environmental Children’s Drawing Contest in Japan.

The JQA International Environmental Children’s Drawing Contest aims at giving “an opportunity for children of the future generation to become more aware of their global environment through drawing picture under the theme of the environment of our Earth,” according to the contest’s website.

Iran participated at the contest with 265 works, four of which were selected as prize winners. 12-year-old Nasrin Mahboub from Ardebil province won the first prize at the international section of the event, while 11-year-old Maedeh Aslanlou from Zanjan, 10-year-old Fatemeh Javanmardi and Hassan Hosseini from Isfahan received an honorary diploma at the international section.

More than 17,000 works from 96 countries across the world had been submitted to the 18th JQA International Environmental Children’s Drawing Contest in Japan.

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‘Weavers of Imagination’ wins Grand Jury Prize at HAAPI filmfest.

reporter 1222 — Sun, 24 Jun 2018 12:15:05 +0000

TEHRAN– Iranian documentary feature ‘Weavers of Imagination’ directed by Mohammad Sadegh Jafari has won the Grand Jury Prize at the 14th Houston Asian American Pacific Islander Film Festival (HAAPI) in US.

The Iranian film has won the Grand Jury Prize for best documentary feature at the 14th edition of the American film festival.

‘Weavers of Imagination’ recounts the life of a number of visually-impaired people who weave rugs together and how the simple fact of working together fills them with a great sense of happiness.

Established in 2004, the Houston Asian American Pacific Islander Film Festival (HAAPI Film Festival) aims to “celebrate the diversity of culture, food, and stories of the AAPI community and to support AAPI artists and filmmakers.”

The 14th edition of the event was held on 31 May to 8 June in Texas, United States.

‘Weavers of Imagination’ has recently won the Best Documentary award at ARC Film Festival in Germany.

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Russian Muslims sign MoU to help Mustafa Prize Foundation

reporter 1222 — Sat, 17 Mar 2018 16:00:20 +0000

The Spiritual Muslim Board of the Asiatic Part of Russia signed an MoU with Mustafa (pbuh) Science and Technology Foundation to help the foundation.

Seyyed Ali Omrani, the Head of Executive Committee of MSTF (Mustafa (pbuh) Science and Technology Foundation), and Fauzi Sido, First Vice-Mufti of the Spiritual Muslim Board of the Asiatic Part of Russia, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Tehran on February 22.

According to the agreement, the two parties are going to “actively” take part in the scientific and technological events and prepare research, scientific, and technological platform in Islamic countries and communities.

Meanwhile, they have agreed to offer financial and scientific support together with the needed human resource from universities and research centers and scientific consultation.

While MSTF representation platform is supposed to be launched in Russia for the extension of scientific and technological activities, its goals, missions, activities, and achievements will be broadcast through media in Russia.

According to the MOU, the two sides are going to share ideas and experiences for further development, networking, and the use of potential capacities in order to exploit synergy and achieve common objectives.

As a part of follow-up procedure, representatives of the two parties will hold meetings and committees, participated by officials and experts.

This is while, financial cooperation is through crowd-funding and crowd-sourcing in order to develop science and technology.

Through bilateral agreement between the Muslim Board of Russia and the MSTF, the two sides will provide consultation in the ‘specialized fields” and hold meetings and workshops with the aim of making the most of the opportunities for scientific developments in the Islamic World.

The Mustafa Prize is a top science and technology award granted to the top researchers and scientists of the Islamic World biennially. The Prize is awarded in four categories, namely “Life and Medical Science and Technology”, “Nanoscience and Nanotechnology”, “Information and Communication Science and Technology”, and “All areas of science and technology”. The laureates in each fields will be awarded USD 500,000/- which is financed through the endowments made to the Prize. The laureates will also be adorned with a special medal and certificate.

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Nobel Peace Prize should go to General Soleimani

reporter 1222 — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 06:43:41 +0000

TEHRAN – Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi said on Wednesday that the Nobel Peace Prize should go to IRGC Quds Force Major General Qassem Soleimani for freeing the world of the Daesh terrorist group.

Makarem Shirazi said the United Nations should thank the commander and his comrades-in-arms for their sacrifices and bravery that led to the defeat of Daesh, ISNA reported.

It came a day after Soleimani declared the end of the terrorist group in Syria and Iraqi in a message to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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Iranian writers welcome Nobel prize for Kazuo Ishiguro

reporter 1222 — Sat, 07 Oct 2017 09:56:33 +0000

TEHRAN – Iranian writers are happy with the Swedish Academy’s decision to present the Nobel prize in literature to Japanese-born Briton Kazuo Ishiguro who has been introduced to Persian readers with nine of his novels.

The writers spoke to some Persian news agencies, commenting on the decision and Ishiguro on Thursday just hours after the academy announced the winner.

“The choice of this writer as the winner of the Nobel prize in literature is the academy’s response to its decision last year,” Soheil Somi told the Persian service of MNA.

Somi who has translated Ishiguro’s “Never Let Me Go”, “The Unconsoled” and “The Buried Giant” added that the decision represents a change in the academy’s tendency to honor “the special writers.”

“The academy adopts certain policies every year to select a writer as the winner of the Nobel prize in literature, but if you ask me to choose between Kazuo Ishiguro and Philip Roth, perhaps I would tell you that Roth is more deserving of the prize,” Somi stated.

“However, my comment never undermines the great value of Ishiguro’s works,” he noted.

A Persian translation of “Never Let Me Go” by Mehdi Ghabrai has also been published by Ofoq.

“I don’t suppose that anyone was annoyed by this choice,” Ghabrai told the Persian service of ISNA.

He praised Ishiguro and said that he certainly deserved the prize and added, “I have read most of Ishiguro’s works translated into Persian and I like the version of ‘The Remains of the Day’ rendered by Najaf Daryabandari.”

Speaking to ISNA, Ahmad Puri, an Iranian translator of Russian literature, also expressed his happiness over Ishiguro’s win.

“Ishiguro is his due to receive the prize,” he said and added, “Bon appetite!”

“He enjoys an acute mind and is a matchless writer with great skills and I am happy about his win,” he noted.

Due to an opinion that traditionally views the Nobel peace prize decision as highly political, Puri said the academy seems to have made “blunders” at times, “but they seem set to break new ground.”

Puri also made a comment concerning those people who criticize the academy for selecting most of their winners from European writers.

“It should not be viewed as discrimination; it is natural if a society is culturally developed, there will be a rise in the number of its writers,” he noted.

Iranian poet Zia Movahhed who is also the author of numerous publications on philosophy said that the Swedish Academy make the decision to award a Nobel prize in literature under the influence of political and ideological issues.

“However, we should not voice any doubt about the winners’ expertise in literature,” he noted in an interview with the Persian service of ILNA.

He said that due to its political and ideological outlook, the academy ignored Iranian poet Ahmad Shamlu, who otherwise deserved a Nobel prize in literature.

Persian readers, Kazuo Ishiguro

All Ishiguro’s novels have been published in Persian. He was introduced to Persian readers for the first time in 1996 by Najaf Daryabandari who gave a translation of his “The Remains of the Day”.

In 1999, his “A Pale View of Hills” and “A Village After Dark” translated by Amir Amjad and Elham Purnazari respectively came out.

A Persian translation of “When We Were Orphans” by Mojdeh Daqiqi was published by Hermes in 2000. A new translation by Majid Gholami-Shahedi was released in 2016.

There are three Persian versions of “Never Let Me Go”. Soheil Somi gave the first one in 2004. The second and third ones came in 2007 and 2016 by Mehdi Ghabrai and Fatemeh Amini respectively.

Somi also translated “The Unconsoled” in 2006.

In 2008, Khojasteh Keihan and Alireza Keivaninejad provided two translations of Ishiguro’s short story collection “Nocturnes”. Another translation of the collection was published by Ghabrai in 2014.

“An Artist of the Floating World” came to Iranian bookstores for the first time in 2012. Yasin Moahammadi is the translator of the book. Another translation by San’an Seddiqi was published in 2015.

Besides Somi, Farmeht Amirdoost and Amir-Mehdi Ahqiqat translated Ishiguro’s latest novel, “The Buried Giant”.

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Closing Ceremony of Mustafa Prize’s Noor Competition Held in Tehran

reporter 1222 — Sun, 03 Sep 2017 09:08:50 +0000

TEHRAN – The closing ceremony of the second round of Mustafa Prize’s Noor Competition for students was held in Tehran.

During the ceremony on Friday, the winners of the international contest were honored and awarded, according to a report by the official website of the competition.

Organized by officials of the Mustafa Prize, it was attended by Iran’s Vice-President for Science and Technology Affairs Sorena Sattari and other officials.

Over 5000 students had participated in the event, presenting about 2000 short films with various scientific themes, including physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics and astronomy.

The Mustafa Prize is a science and technology award granted to top researchers and scientists from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states biennially.

The award is meant to encourage education and research in Islamic nations and forge cooperation among science and technology institutions of OIC member countries. The forum has been held with an aim to enhance the links among academics and researchers in scientific realms and facilitate the growth of science in OIC member states.

Jackie Ying, a nanotechnologist from Singapore, was also honored at the closing ceremony.

The Mustafa Prize is awarded in the four categories of “Life Science and Medical Sciences,” “Nano Science and Nanotechnologies,” “The Information and Communication Science and Technologies,” and “Top Scientific Achievement in other fields.”

The Mustafa Prize was launched in 2013, with high-profile universities and academic centers of the OIC member states defining its policies.

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