Category: 6. Culture

TEHRAN – The National Elderly Week is being observed from September 30 to October 6 in the country, focusing on improving mental and physical health, social participation, and life quality in older adults.

Simultaneous with the International Day…

By Humaira Ahad

It was a quiet afternoon in 13th-century Konya. Molana Jalaluddin Rumi was surrounded by the orderly stacks of his books, lecturing a group of inquisitive students.

His domain was knowledge, law, and…

TEHRAN- A Persian translation of Korean author Baek Se-hee’s 2018 book “I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki” has recently been published by Milkan Publications in Tehran. 

The book has been translated into Persian by Arezou…

TEHRAN- Iranian director Hamidreza Naimi is restaging an adaptation of the play “Frederick” by Belgian playwright Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt at Vahdat Hall in Tehran.

A cast composed of prominent actors Hamed Komeili, Atefeh Razavi, Behnam Sharafi…

The nationwide ceremonies, coordinated by relevant authorities, will honor the legacy and memory of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Hezbollah chief who was martyred in an Israeli strike on the suburbs of Beirut a year ago.

The event in Tehran…

Rumi was born to native Persian-speaking parents on the Eastern shores of the then Persian Empire on September 30, 1207, in the city of Balkh which is now part of Afghanistan, and finally settled in the town of Konya, in what is now Turkey.

…

TEHRAN – The first edition of Avaye Solh International Film Festival will be organized in Qeshm Island in the Persian Gulf in November.

Avaye Solh (literally meaning Voice of Peace) festival is being organized with the participation of the Qeshm…

TEHRAN – Regular physical activity, healthy nutrition, and sufficient sleep are key factors to heart health, Nafiseh Hosseini-Yekta, the director of the health ministry’s Persian medicine office, has said.

Exercise strengthens the heart, but…

TEHRAN – In the first six months of the current Iranian year (which began on March 21), a total of 4,597 prisoners of unintentional crimes were released from prison.

The debt of the released prisoners was 180 trillion rials (about 163 million…

TEHRAN – A total of 553 earthquakes hit Iran over the past calendar month that ended on September 22, indicating a 4.2 percent drop in the number of earthquakes compared to the same period last year.

In comparison to a month earlier, July 23 –…