Category: 6. Culture

TEHRAN – Iranian students are planning to participate in eight international Olympiads this summer.

The first one is the 55th International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) for high school students, which is held annually in a different country. In 2025,…

TEHEAN – Marked annually on July 15, the World Youth Skills Day 2025 underscores youth empowerment through AI and digital skills to help them thrive in the future.

The United Nations General Assembly declared 15 July as World Youth Skills Day in…

TEHRAN – Iranian students won four silver medals at the 57th International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) held from July 5 to 14 in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.

The event brought together 360 students from more than 90 countries to compete,…

Rakhshandeh Etesami, also known as Parvin Etesami, is the most famous poetess in Iran. She was born on March 17, 1907, in Tabriz. She was the daughter of Yousef Etesami Ashtiani (Etesam-al-Molk), a contemporary Iranian writer and translator, and…

TEHRAN – The Cinematheque of the Iranian Artists Forum (IAF) will screen American filmmaker Wes Anderson’s 2025 movie “The Phoenician Scheme” on Thursday.

The screening will be followed by a review session, Mehr reported.

“The…

TEHRAN – “The Toilers of the Sea” by French writer Victor Hugo has been published in Persian by Hermes Publications. 

Mohammadreza Parsayar is the translator of the book first released in 1866.

“The Toilers of the Sea” is a novel that…

TEHRAN – Iranian director Behruz Gharibpour is restaging the Ashura opera puppet show with his Aran Theater Troupe at Tehran’s Ferdowsi Hall to mark the month of Muharram.

Beginning Sunday, the show, which is recognized as one of the most…

TEHRAN – According to the Vice President for Women and Family Affairs, Zahra Behrouz-Azar, women comprise 56 percent of academic communities in the country, holding over 60 percent of the staff working with schools, and 63 percent of university…

TEHRAN – A total of 27,200 Iranians donated blood under a national campaign during Tasua and Ashura (the ninth and tenth days of the month of Muharram), according to Bashir Haji-Beigi, spokesman for the Blood Transfusion Organization.

With the…

TEHRAN – From the beginning of the current water year (September 23, 2024) to July 12, precipitation across the country amounted to 136.3 mm, indicating a 39.7 percent decrease from the long-term average of 226.1 mm recorded in the same period,…