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[ad#imapnov08] The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis accompanied by a team of cinematic figures will be holding seminars at Tehran's House of Cinema on Sunday Feb 29 and Tuesday March 3rd. The seminars are organized…
Officials from Iran National Museum are in talks with their counterparts from the British Museum to borrow the famous Charter of the Cyrus the Great for a few months to put it on public display at home. Deputy chairman of…
[ad#imapnov08] The Walker Art Center is due to screen five narrative and documentary films by aspiring Iranian filmmakers in Minneapolis, US. Views from Iran will screen Manijeh Hekmat's Three Women (March 11), Pouria Azarbaijani's Unfinished Stories (April 1), Abdolreza Kahani's…
[ad#imapnov08] Hamadan Province in western Iran has yielded an underground city, which is believed by archeologists to date back to pre-Parthian eras. Archeologists found 25 of the underground citys rooms, halls and corridors in a 4-meter-deep site in Samen located…
China is hosting an exhibition of Iranian arts and culture, featuring unique works of art and manuscripts in the capital city of Beijing. The event displays various art forms such as marquetry, engraving and Cauteragraphy (creating patterns on wood through…
[ad#imapnov08] Irans Zoroastrian community held the Jashn-e-Sadeh Festival for celebrating the discovery of fire on the 10th of the Iranian month of Bahman (Jan. 29). Considered one of the biggest Persian festivities in ancient times, Jashn-e-Sadeh (also known as the…
[ad#imapnov08] An Iranian archaeological team has recently discovered ten Parthian era jar burials at the Nakhl-e Ebrahim site in Hormuzgan Province. The burials were unearthed during the second season of excavations carried out to save artifacts and information from the…
Jashn-e Sade/Sadeh (in Persian: جشن سده), is an ancient Iranian tradition celebrated before nowrouz. Sadeh meaning hundred, is a mid winter feast celebrated with grandeur and magnificence in ancient Iran. It was a festivity to honor fire and to defeat…
[ad#imapnov08] How "Merry Christmas" is said in: Armenian: Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand Azeri: Tezze Iliniz Yahsi Olsun Chile: Feliz Navidad Chinese: (Cantonese) Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun Chinese: (Mandarin) Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan…