Iranian Literature

TEHRAN – The Iranian Children’s Book Council has announced the country’s nominations for the IBBY-iRead Outstanding Reading Promoter Award and the IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award. Children’s literature expert Zohreh Qaini was nominated for the award in 2021 and Iran-based Afghan book-reading promoter Nader Musavi received the nomination for 2022. Qaini, …

Celebrated as a symbol of love and often associated with romance, the rose has a history of 35 million years. Although it is cultivated for ornamental purposes, it also has various medicinal uses as it contains antioxidants. It has been known for centuries that the rose creates a feeling of …

A Pennsylvania school board president is called upon to resign after cutting off an Iranian mother who spoke out against the CRT at a meeting and had her escorted away. Iranian immigrant and mother of three, Anita Edgarian, raised concerns with members of the Chester School District Board of Directors …

TEHRAN – Shazdeh, an Afsharid-era (1736-1748) public bathhouse in the historic village of Tezerjan in central Yazd province, has been restored, a local tourism official said. The project involved lightening and repairing the roof as well as strengthening the structure using cob materials, Hamidreza Abbasi said on Monday, CHTN reported. …

July 24, 2021 AS THE SON From a Japanese mother and a Beninese father, Hachimura Rui stood out from her classmates in Toyama, a small town about a six-hour drive from Tokyo. Other kids laughed at him, he once reminded The Undefeated, a sports website, “You’re black, go away.” But …

Carole Bethuel Hi Hollywoodians! Today we’re sharing some of our favorite moments from the 74th Cannes Film Festival. The prestigious festival took place July 6-17 and celebrated some of the greatest actors and filmmakers from around the world! The Festival is back! Tonight at 7:25 p.m., follow the Opening Ceremony …

This year, Russia sent six films to the Cannes Film Festival, four in competition and two in non-competitive categories. And the filmmakers won three awards: the Grand Prize for the film “Hytti Nro. 6 ”by Juho Kuosmanen co-produced with Russia – shared with the film“ Ghahreman ”(Hero) by Iranian filmmaker …

Join us on Video & Film e-stream for an online screening of Zia Moharjerjashi‘s the Coal Sky: Chapter 5 (2017), streaming from Monday July 12 to Sunday July 18, 2021. The coal sky is all about the light of the Pacific Northwest. That’s all you need to know. Zia Mohajerjasbi, …

Each week, Benjamin Law asks public figures to discuss the topics we are told to keep private by having them roll a dice. The numbers they land on are the topics given to them. This week, he talks to Behrouz Boochani. The 37-year-old Kurdish-Iranian author, poet and journalist spent six …

NEW YORK – Science, not speculation, is key to determining how COVID-19 has reached humans, and relying on spy agents only replaces science with politics, said John Richard Schrock, former chairman of the biology department at Emporia State University. “We believe the strongest clue of new, credible, and peer-reviewed evidence …