The midsummer is a special day annually celebrated in many parts of Iran including in Zardouyi village in the city of Paveh in Kermanshah province, western Iran. The ceremony is held at the beginning of the temperature drop when the harvest of garden products starts. The celebrations include scarecrow handling, playing Daf (traditional Persian drum),...Read More

The fifth breast milk bank in Iran was established in the city of Shiraz during a ceremony on the occasion of World Breastfeeding Week, an annual celebration which is being held every year from August 1 to 7.Read More

Secretary of the Working Group on Fashion and Clothing in the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Hamid Ghobadi.Read More

Short stories on the Syrian war from a number of young Iranian writers have recently been published in a book titled “I Love You Damascus” in Tehran.Published by Shahid Kazemi Publications, the collection contains 10 stories by 10 women writers, including Afsaneh Gudarzi, Sara Esmaeili, Zahra Tabatabai, Roqiyeh Babai and Zahra Akhlaqi.The stories try to...Read More

Iran's Cultural Attaché in Japan underlined that after the victory of the Islamic Revolution, women have gained their true status and their social presence has increased day by day along with their training and family role.Read More

Thousands of women are wearing a hijab during the Muslim’s holy month of Ramadan to raise awareness about the head covering and educate people on fighting Islamophobia, according to the founder of the World Hijab Day Organization.Read More

UN Women joins all indigenous peoples everywhere, especially indigenous women and girls, in commemorating the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. This year’s theme of “Indigenous Languages” challenges us to ensure that indigenous women and girls have a voice—quite literally—in the diverse political, civil, social, economic and cultural spaces that they occupy.Read More

Photo of Zobeideh (left) and Shamshuk (right), retrieved from Baluchestan documentary series directed by Ali MaghazeiRead More

How you spend your money can signal aspects of your personality, according to new research. Analyses of over 2 million spending records from more than 2,000 individuals indicate that when people spend money in certain categories, this can be used to infer certain personality traits, such as how materialistic they are or how much self-control...Read More

A new Persian translation of Omani novelist Jokha Alharthi’s “Celestial Bodies”, the winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize, has been published in Tehran.Read More