Art And Culture

Academic Books will be held from November 14-18 at the Imam Khomeini Grand Musalla (prayer ground) in Tehran.

The fair is being organized by the Cultural Association of Foreign Publishers…

The one-person play ‘3600 Seconds Death’ written by Amir-Hossein Behbahani, directed by Elham Yousefi and performed by Ava Alavi will attend the 8th United Solo Theater Festival, slated for…

Well known actor and theater director Siavash Tahmoures, 69, will stage an improvised version of an old play called ‘Void in Void’ for a week in November.

Titled ‘Hich dar Hich’ in Persian…

The UK’s biggest Muslim lifestyle event Muslim Lifestyle Expo (MLE) took place in Manchester, October 29-30.

The two-day exhibition, now in its second year, was designed to provide a unique…

Filming of the acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Pouran Derakhshandeh’s new movie ‘Under the Smoky Ceiling’ is underway in Tehran.

Similar to her previous works, the film deals with an important…

Tehran is hosting a meeting of West Asian executive managers in the performing arts.

The ‘Meeting of West Asian Countries, General Directors of Performing Arts,’ a three-day event that…

The play ‘A Bit More Everyday’ directed by actor and theater director Afsaneh Mahian, 42, will go on stage next month in Lisbon.

The play was awarded at the annual Fajr Theater Festival in…

The Iranian novel ‘I’m Alive’, a narrative about Iranian prisoners of war during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war (known in Iran as Sacred Defense) has been translated into Russian and released in Moscow…

The Persian translation of ‘The Tripods’ in three new volumes has been released by the Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA).

The most celebrated work…

The Turkish premiere of ‘Muhammad: The Messenger of God’ directed by the renowned Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi took place on Thursday, October 27 at Kanyon Shopping Mall, a multi-purpose complex…

Iran’s National Auction House has received several entries for the 4th National Auction in Tehran. The date of the auction has yet to be announced.

Young Iranian pop singer Ehsan Khajeh-Amiri will commence his US and Canada concert tour from Canada with a performance in Montreal on November 4.

On November 5, he will perform in Toronto…

Smiley faces and images of food and cats designed almost 20 years ago by a Japanese phone company and used in digital messages worldwide have now attained the status of art.

The Museum of…

A part of the treasured collection of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMOCA) will be displayed at the Maxxi Museum in Rome, Italy, in January 2017.

Whether it is scrolling through Instagram, popping on a pair of headphones and turning up the music or burying oneself in a good book, everyone has their way of passing the time on public…

Two historical memoirs have been published recently by Tehran's Iranshenasi Publisher.

'Memoirs of Sir Frederic John Goldsmid' has been translated into Persian and a new edition of '…

In recognition of the remarkable collections of Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts in Istanbul, the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington are…

The first National Conference on Investigating Textbooks of TPSOL (Teaching Persian to Speakers of Other Languages), was held last week at Tehran’s Shahid Beheshti University in collaboration with…

Amir Reza Koohestani’s newest play ‘The Case of Meursault’ is currently on stage at the Kammerspielen Theater in Munich, Germany.

Written and directed by Koohestani, the play is an…

‘Crossed Out Memories’, a 40-minute documentary on ‘anti-romantic’ Persian songs, will be screened at the 7th London Iranian Film Festival.

The festival runs from October 28-November 2,…

Seventeen plays attributed to William Shakespeare were written in collaboration with other playwrights, according to an edition of his works coming out this month that uses “big data” to reveal…

A special program of the Art and HIV/AIDS Exhibition is underway at Tehran’s Mellat Cineplex Gallery.

The Palestinians on Thursday gave a rare glimpse of one of the Middle East’s finest mosaic floors near the occupied West Bank city of Jericho.

Dating from the 8th century AD, the floor…

Iranian graphic designer Mehdi Mahdian, 35, has won an award for his poster at the Mexican poster biennial, held September 29-October 2.

Mahdian, a graduate of Tehran Art University…

The 61st International Belgrade Book Fair (IBBF), where Iran is the guest of honor, was officially inaugurated on Sunday, October 23.