Only one-third, or 4,000 book publishers are active among the total 12,000 licensed publishers. This calls for a serious policy to elicit society’s interest in reading, said speakers at the first…
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Iranian theatre director and playwright Mohammad Yaghoubi has won the third prize at the Toronto Fringe Lottery 2016.
He was awarded for his ‘A Moment of Silence’ (2000), which earlier won…
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This winter, the walls of Gallery 6 at the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire in the US will take the magical and fantastic impossibilities of our imaginations and present them in a way that is…
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The environmental documentary ‘Monitor Lizards Fall in Love’ by filmmaker Delavar Dustanian will be unveiled at the 9th Iran International Documentary Film Festival ‘Cinema Verite’, slated for mid…
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Veteran painter Farah Ossouli is back in Iran and is preparing to showcase her works in two exhibitions, and publish a handmade book.
She is planning to display a total of 40 paintings…
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The 8th Jalal Literary Prize announced winners in four different categories of the competition at a ceremony at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on Saturday.
Nasim Marashi’s ‘Fall is the Last Season of…
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Iranian animations ‘The Little Boy’ and ‘Children of Oak’ bagged awards at the Asian Youth Animation and Comics Contest (AYACC), in China.
The festival’s Special Jury Prize was awarded to…
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A photo collection ‘Capital’ by young artist Hossein Mousavi-Faraz was recently on display at the Bahar Art Gallery, Iranian Artists’ Forum.
The exhibition looked at the dominance of the…
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Amid recriminations and wildly diverging theories, Italian politicians and art critics are still trying to comprehend a dramatic robbery which saw 17 paintings including several masterpieces taken…
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An Azerbaijan music ensemble ‘Delnavazan’ is planning a charity concert at Tehran Milad Tower.
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A treasure trove of 17th century letters in the Netherlands is giving researchers a rare glimpse into the lives of ordinary people, many of them French refugees fleeing turmoil and persecution.…
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The play ‘Hedgehog’ by director Bahram Afshari, will go on stage at Tehran’s Baran Theatre hall from November 29.
Written by Afshari, the story is about a rural youth who travels to Tehran…
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Japanese writer Haruki Murakami has won the Danish 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.
“Haruki Murakami’s imaginative prose embodies a global view and a narrative zest that has…
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The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMOCA) is hosting an exhibition of artworks by the late Iranian modernist painter Farideh Lashai.
A collection of 130 paintings, drawings, glasswork…
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The second edition of the ‘Festival of Storytelling’ is slated for December in the southwestern Khuzestan Province.
The festival aims to introduce and promote the culture of storytelling,…
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Austria is hosting the Persian Book Week in the follow up to the 15th edition of the Vienna International Book Fair that concluded recently.
Various cultural programs have been planned for…
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The Tochal International Ski Resort in northern Tehran opened on Thursday for the autumn-winter season at a ceremony attended by Mahmoud Goudarzi, minister of youth affairs and sports, and other…
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Head of the National Library of Turkey, Zulfi Toman, who arrived in Iran on Wednesday, is visiting cultural centers and libraries across the country.
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The CineDays Festival of European Film, annually held in the capital city Skopje, Macedonia, has dedicated a section to Iran cinema.
Eight powerful dramas among the recent productions of…
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A sculpture and installation art exhibition by artist Abbas Akbari, presenting new perspectives of an 800-year-old work of art, is underway at Aun Art Gallery.
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Veteran Iranian poet and lyricist Rahim Moeini-Kermanshahi passed away on Tuesday at Jam Hospital in Tehran. He was 93.
He was suffering from dyspnea (shortness of breath) and chest pain in…
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The 17th Bratislava International Film Festival announced winners on Tuesday where four major awards were presented to two Iranian movies ‘ Wednesday, May 9’ directed by Vahid Jalilvand and ‘Nahid…
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A Syrian journalist who lives and works in the war-scarred city of Aleppo has been awarded the Reporters without Borders Prize in France for her defense of press freedom.
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The 32nd Tehran International Short Film Festival (TISFF) wrapped up on Tuesday, by awarding the winners in different sections.
‘A Warm Spell’, directed by Toshimichi Saito from Japan, won…
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A video mapping titled ‘The First Life’, designed and directed by Amir-Reza Salari, was recently displayed on the College of Fine Arts building at the Tehran University’s Department of…
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