Khonyagaran, an all-female orchestra led by prominent Iranian composer Behzad Abdi, has been selected to perform a concert at the 25th edition of WOMEX – the World Music Expo in Tampere, Finland.Read More
Arefeh Arab Ahmadi, 22, a student from the east-central city of Shahrud, lost her life a couple of weeks ago in a car crash in front of Shahrud University of Technology.Read More
Director Narges Abyar, and Hutan Shakiba, Elnaz Shakerdoost and Fereshteh Sadr-Orafai, the stars of her acclaimed movie “When the Moon Was Full”, were selected as goodwill ambassadors for the National Library and Archives of Iran (NLAI).Read More
A retired Iranian lady has created jobs for more than 1,000 people by launching her own business, and is running a campaign against the US sanctions.Read More
The Iranian Parliament has passed legislation that steps up punishment for acid attacks and provides more support to survivors of such horrendous acts.Read More
There are not many people in the world who devote their whole life to gaining knowledge and deploying it to support and assist their fellow beings. The late Professor Parvaneh Vossough was one of such people who diminished the pains and ended the sorrows. She had studied in the best international universities and had quit...Read More
An Iranian woman has for the first time received the badge of Pahlavani, a traditional sport originally used to train warriors in ancient Iran.Read More
Iranian director Elham Yusefi plans to stage Romanian-French playwright and novelist Matei Visniec’s play “The Body of a Woman as a Battlefield in the Bosnian War” at Tehran’s Neauphle-le-Chateau Hall on May 29. Read More
The French capital of Paris is hosting the second edition of an Iranian photography exhibition called Iran Photo (inside & outside) which offers a nuanced view of Iran, one that reveals the complex changes that the country has experienced over the last four decades.Read More
