A new gallery of Islamic arts at the British Museum broadly explores the cultural impact of Islam on everyday life through art and material objects from the many lands and societies the religion has affected across continents and centuries. With innovative curatorial direction and displays, the new Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World brings together objects...Read More

The Eighth Fadjr International Fashion and Clothing Festival (February 15-21) showed that designing clothes and fashion received enough attention, said Iran’s culture minister. According to Mehr News Agency, Abbas Salehi who was speaking during a visit to the eighth edition of the festival, added, “In the past, Iranian designers used to copy clothing styles, but...Read More

 A number of Iranian literati will come together in a session at the University of Tehran on Saturday to honor Polish orientalist Anna Maria Krasnowolska, the university announced last week. Born in 1949, Krasnowolska is the head of the Department of Iranian Studies at the Institute of Oriental Philology of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow,...Read More

published in a special Go Red for Women issue of the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation. Researchers analyzed hospital admissions data in the United States and found that hospital visits for heart attacks in patients between age 35 and 54 increased from 27 percent in 1995–99 to 32 percent in 2010–14. The increase was more pronounced in women, who had a...Read More

Narges Abyar (born 1970 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian author, film director and screenwriter best known for directing a famous film named Trench 143. The film is adapted from Abyar’s novel titled The Third Eye that narrates a story of a woman and her son during Iran’s sacred defense. Abyar graduated in Persian literature; she...Read More

More babies could be born with heart defects in the future as global warming puts pregnant women at greater risk of exposure to dangerously high temperatures, new research suggested. The study is preliminary, and the potential impact of climate change on congenital heart disease is far from clear, the researchers say. But earlier work has...Read More

Iranian women’s team learned its fate at 2019 FIBA 3×3 World Cup which will be held in the Netherlands. The Iranian team has been drawn alongside the 2016 World champions Czech Republic, 2016 European runners-up Romania, Mongolia and the team ranked 2nd at the World Cup Qualifier which is yet to be determined. Here is...Read More

Female adolescent blood donors are more likely to have low iron stores and iron deficiency anemia than adult female blood donors and nondonors, which could have significant negative consequences on their developing brains, a new study led by Johns Hopkins researchers suggests. Based on these findings, the authors propose a variety of measures that could...Read More

 Saraeh Javanmardi from Iran picked up a gold medal at the Al Ain 2019 World Shooting Para Sport World Cup on Tuesday. Javanmaedi, who is the first ever female gold medalist from Iran to win in the shooting category of the Paralympics Games, finished on 232.6 points at the P2 – Women’s 10m Air Pistol...Read More

 Houses of fashion and costume are to be established all around the country, Hamid Qobadi, head of the 8th edition of Fajr International Festival of Fashion and Costume, said here on Monday. The first house of fashion and costume is to be opened in Shiraz, Qobadi said, hoping every province would have a fashion and...Read More