Iran: Bushehr Friday Prayer Imam Says Music Is Haram
Iran-HRM - A sermon by Hassan Mosleh, the Friday Prayer Imam of the town of Borazjan in Bushehr was published…
Culture
Inaccessible Louvre Exhibit Highlights Ongoing Challenges For Persons Living With Disabilities in Iran
CHRI - A popular exhibition by the Louvre Museum in Paris at the National Museum of Iran has come under criticism because it is inaccessible…
‘Everybody Knows’ by Iranian director Asghar Farhadi to open Cannes 2018
PayvandNews - The 2018 Cannes Film Festival will open with the world premiere of Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's Spanish-language drama…
Sacred fire alive for 1,550 years at Iranian Zoroastrian temple
PayvandNews - Iran's central city of Yazd is home to one of the fire temples most sacred to Zoroastrians worldwide with a…
Iranians mark Nature’s Day as Norooz holidays end
PayvandNews - People across Iran are celebrating Sizdah Bedar, the ancient festival of nature, on the last day of Norooz…
How conservatives are elbowing out Reformists in Iranian cinema
Al-Monitor - Iranians have long been fond of cinema, and the country’s politicians are no exception. But in recent decades,…
Nowruz The Persian New Year at the spring vernal equinox in IRAN, Central/West Asia and in Diaspora is commemorated
PayvandNews - The flower buds of yellow, violet, red and white crocuses of saffron bulbs, intermingled with the blossoming daffodils,…
PHOTOS: Tehran adorned with giant colored eggs ahead of Persian New Year Norooz
PayvandNews - To mark the beginning of the Persian New Year, also known as Norooz, visual artists have decorated Tehran…
IRGC funding for cinema stirs debate in Iran
Al-Monitor - “I am a dependent filmmaker. I am a man of the system. … I thank Owj [Arts and…
Evoking Sophia Loren In Iran
PayvandNews - When I was a teenager in the 1960s growing up in Tehran, Hollywood had not yet monopolized stardom.…