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  • Jared Leto is apparently in talks to play the ‘Joker’ in Warner Bros’ film ‘Suicide Squad’.

    According to The Wrap News Inc., Leto, who won an Oscar this year for his role in Dallas Buyers…

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  • On the occasion of the 741st death anniversary of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi (aka Mawlana), Ayan Band led by Hajir Mehrafrouz will perform in Konya, Turkey in December.

    In the performance,…

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  • President Hassan Rouhani congratulated the Iranian male and female Karate teams for winning 5 medals in the World Karate Championships.

    In his message to the Karate teams as well as the…

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  • The latest book of Parviz Tanavoli titled ‘Poem’ will be unveiled on November 14.

    The book includes more than 100 works of art based on Iranian poems and Farhad Kuhkan (Farhad the Mountain…

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  • Family audiences lifted ‘Big Hero 6’ over ‘Interstellar’ and the fan boys and girls who turned out in force for Christopher Nolan’s space adventure in one of the fiercest box office match-ups of…

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  • A colloquium on Iranian contemporary poet Nima Yushij and Spanish poet Juan Ramon Jimenez is scheduled to take place next year in Tehran’s Book City Institute and the Complutense University of…

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  • Although it is produced in Iran, the film has been selected as the Afghan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the

    87th Oscar awards

    Directed by Iranian filmmaker Jamshid…

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  • ‘The Hard Dream’, a short film by Behrouz Bagheri won the Best Animation Award at 2014 Noor Iranian Film Festival (NIFF) in Los Angeles.

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  • Polish Deputy Culture Minister Monica Smullen and Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham underlined further improvement in cultural ties at a meeting on Saturday.

    During the meeting,…

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  • ‘The Mysterious City’, an animation which received acclaim at the Isfahan International Children’s Film Festival portrays Shiraz, its history, architecture, culture and geography as well as people…

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  • The Iranian national beach soccer team, last year’s world champs, lost to Portugal and ranked 4th in the Samsung Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup Dubai 2014. However, at the end of the games,…

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  • Prominent Iranian actress and filmmaker Niki Karimi will be honored at the 20th Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF), slated from November 10-17.

    The festival’s ‘New Horizon’ section…

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  • This year’s Grand Annual Exposition of Haft Negah Group which includes Aria, Elahe, Golestan, Mahe-Mehr, Haft Samar, and Vali Art galleries, has begun.

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  • November 8 was the 14th death anniversary of the prominent Iranian intellectual and pioneer of modern Persian prose (fiction) Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh.

    On the occasion, it would be…

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  • The National Library and Archives of the Islamic Republic of Iran (NLAI) will hold the 1st International Conference on Media Management on November 9-10.

    The conference will be attended by…

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  • On November 7, the galleries of Iranian Artists Forum hosted the opening of four fine arts exhibitions. Among them was a group calligraphic painting exhibition titled ‘The Third Week’ which…

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  • With focus on the urban theme, the International Urban Film Festival provides a rather vast and diverse context; and given the international reach of the theme, the festival should welcome films…

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  • The back story to fictional kingdom Westeros is explained in ‘The World of Ice and Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones’, which features text by George R.R.…

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  • ‘Wind & Death’, a video art by Iranian artist Mahmood Nouraei will be shown at the Cairo International Film Festival which commences on November 9 and will go on till November 18.

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  • Paintings by Fereydoun Ave and installations by Shaqayeq Arabi and Yasmin Sinai are on display at the Total Arts Gallery in Dubai.

    The exhibition named ‘Roots’ was launched on November 3…

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  • After getting a rejuvenating shot from a sister dam of the same name, the parched Zayandehrud River is now back to life, flowing once more. The landmark release of water took place on November 3…

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  • Iranian Embassy in Beirut issued a statement on Thursday expressing condolences over the death of Lebanon’s veteran writer and well-known scholar George Jardaq.

    “Like Lebanon, Iran has…

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  • Iranian karateka Hamide Abbasali has reached the final in the international tournament of Karate World Championship (KWC).

    Winning a precious gold medal in the Asian Games less than two…

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  • The wind weighed on her/Like debris of a building,

    My poor little tree/Was in love with the wind/ the wandering wind

    Where Is the Wind’s Abode? / Where Is the Wind’s Abode?

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  • Iranian national beach soccer team beat the Morocco team five-nil Thursday night to reach the semifinals in the Samsung Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup Dubai 2014.

    Coached by Mario…

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