Iranians Celebrated A Pre-Islamic Festival Dancing In the Streets
Radiofarda - Charharshanbe Suri is an Iranian festival that is celebrated on the last Wednesday before Nowruz the Persian New…
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Iran’s Cultural Cleavages And The Need For National Compromise
PayvandNews 0 Popular demonstrations in Iran at the end of 2017 reflected economic and other grievances along with a growing…
Historical Tabib mansion in Shushtar, Iran turned into boutique hotel
PayvandNews - The 19th-century Tabib Shushtari mansion has recently been repurposed into a boutique hotel after being fully restored. The mansion is…
Iran’s Islamic Azad University rocked by layoffs of pro-reform professors
Al-Monitor - Iran’s Islamic Azad University (IAU), which was established by moderate Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, is now in the…
“Identity” art exhibit in Tehran spotlights acid attacks
PayvandNews - A collection of woodworks created on the theme of acid attacks is currently on display during an exhibition…
Iranian film on Tehran’s role in Syria war creates controversy
Al-Monitor - Iranian director Ebrahim Hatamikia's "Damascus Time” is the first major Iranian film about the country's presence in Syria. Ever since its…
The conductor smashing Iranian taboos over women, and music
Guardian - In her 38-year career, which is as long as the history of the Islamic republic, Iran’s first and…
Shi’ite Shrine At Persepolis Sparks Row Over Iran’s Heritage
RFL/RE - With more than 10,000 religious shrines dotting Iran to mark where descendants of Shi'ite Islam's most revered imams…
Royal Portraits From 19th-Century Iran Will Go on View at the Smithsonian’s Freer|Sackler in Washington, DC
PayvandNews -After-hours Special Preview of “The Prince and the Shah: Royal Portraits from Qajar Iran” Feb. 23 (more…)
Foreign experts to help protect Persepolis, ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire, against lichens
PayvandNews - Separate teams of Italian and Spanish experts will join hands with Iranian counterparts to cope with spreading lichens…