Art And Culture

A rare Qur’an manuscript, written during the Timurid and Safavid eras, will be registered as a national heritage item.

Three Iranian films won top prizes at the 4th Silk Road Film Festival (SRFF) held in Dublin, Ireland in March.

‘Ranna’s Silence’ directed by Behzad Rafiei’s won the Best Children’s Film…

An adapted version of ‘Odyssey’ directed by Arash Dadgar, is on stage at Tehran’s Hafez Hall from April 4.

Inspired by the ancient Greek author Homer’s epic poem Odyssey, the dramaturgy is…

The book ‘Manuscript Transcription and Centers in Iranian Civilization’ written by academic Habibollah Azimi has been released in English and German by Lambert Academic Publishing (LAP).

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The seven members of the jury for the International Competition section (Cinema Salvation) of the 34th Fajr International Film Festival (FIFF) have been announced.

A powerful and totally original video installation adopts a contemporary approach to the works of art to explore Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio’s artistic career.

Titled ‘Caravaggio…

Veteran scholar, historian, geographer and lexicographer Manouchehr Sotoudeh, passed away on Friday (April 8) at the age of 103.

He was suffering from upper respiratory tract infection in…

Beginning April 13, the Bank of Brasil Cultural Center (Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, CCBB) in Rio de Janeiro will present a retrospective of the works of award-winning Iranian filmmaker Abbas…

Veteran actress Azar Mehdi-Qolikhani, known with her artistic name Soraya Hekmat, passed away on Friday, April 8 in a hospital in Tehran at the age of 63.

She was earlier hospitalized due…

Iranian films to be screened at the 34th Fajr International Film Festival (FIFF) have been announced.

Two men have been arrested in connection with the 2009 theft of a valuable work by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch.

The Norwegian police spokeswoman Unni Groendal said the men are…

A play, titled ‘Leili is the Name of All Iranian Girls’, written and directed by Amir Mohandesian is underway at Baran Theatre Hall in Tehran.

It casts a different look on the 1980-1988…

A photo exhibition by the Iranian artist Arash Chamanara is underway at No.6 Gallery in Tehran.

‘Door-Tehran’, the photos portray doors of old residential buildings in the capital city. The…

Iran’s national soccer team has maintained its top place in the Asian FIFA Ranking while climbing two steps up to reach 42nd in the world.

According to the latest FIFA ranking published on…

Iranshahr Theater Hall in Tehran was host to the performance of Hamlet by Shakespeare’s Globe theater as part of its ‘Globe to Globe Hamlet’ tour on Thursday, April 7.

On April 23, 2014 -…

Five 7-meter high inflatable white rabbits were unveiled Monday at San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza as part of a three-week public art installation.

Titled ‘Intrude’, the installation by…

Sama Babai, a visually-impaired memorizer of the entire Qur’an, will compete from Iran at the 11th edition of Jordan’s international Quran competition.

Babai stood first in Iran’s 38th…

Iranian translator and poet who had English translation of the Holy Qur’an and numerous English poems in his resume passed away in Qom on Tuesday. He was 83.

His poems, mostly in praise of…

Iranian theater director Mehdi Kushki will stage the play ‘Bleach’ at Richmond Hill Center for the Performing Arts (RHCPA) in Toronto on April 23.

Veteran Iranian cartoonist and illustrator Kambiz Derambakhsh is planning to feature a series of his works in a charity exhibition at Tehran Seyhoun Gallery.

A selection of 12 lithography…

The Iranian play ‘Hearing’ written and directed by Amir Reza Koohestani, is to be staged at the Festival of International New Drama (FIND) in Germany.

Koohestani will direct the play on…

Only a month after well-known Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa released his latest novel ‘Five Corners’, now the writer is shaping up to have another literary hit.

The new book has earned…

Iranian veteran composer and violist, Javad Lashgari passed away on Tuesday (April 5) at his home in Tehran due to cardiac arrest. He was 93.

Born in a family of musicians in Tehran in 1923…

The 53rd edition of Bologna Children’s Book Fair opened on April 4 in Italy, once again bringing together a global audience that makes up the international experience.

The 34th Fajr International Film Festival (FIFF) has released the list of foreign films partaking in different sections of the event.

According to a press release from the public relations…