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  • Commentary book on Great Mongol Shahnameh to be unveiled in Tehran 2024-10-20 17:52

    Commentary book on Great Mongol Shahnameh to be unveiled in Tehran

    TEHRAN - A Persian translation of a commentary book on the Great Ilkhanid Shahnameh, which is one of the oldest and most valuable illustrated manuscripts remaining from Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh, is set to be unveiled in Tehran on Tuesday.

  • Wonders of Uzbekistan: a ten-day travel experience 2024-06-11 17:25

    By Afshin Majlesi

    Wonders of Uzbekistan: a ten-day travel experience

    From my childhood, the names of Samarkand and Bukhara have been etched into my memory; whether in poems, school classes, grandmother’s tales, or stories in my books, those names always lingered in the back of my mind.

  • Sadi mausoleum restoration is 70 percent complete 2023-11-11 17:28

    Sadi mausoleum restoration is 70 percent complete

    TEHRAN – A restoration project to reinforce the Sadi mausoleum, where the 13th-century illustrious Persian poet is laid to rest, is about 70 percent complete.

  • Persian inscription identified on mosque mihrab in Russia 2023-06-13 19:40

    Persian inscription identified on mosque mihrab in Russia

    TEHRAN – A centuries-old inscription bearing a Persian poem has been identified in a mosque located in the Russian city of Derbent situated on the western shores of the Caspian Sea, in present-day Dagestan.

  • It’s not a Yalda celebration without pomegranates 2022-12-20 18:58

    By Afshin Majlesi

    It’s not a Yalda celebration without pomegranates

    TEHRAN– Children running around, mothers set out trays of delicately cracked pomegranates, bowls glittering with their ruby-red seeds and elders take turns reading verses from illustrious Persian poets. Sounds familiar? If so, you’ve seen a glimpse of the Yalda celebration in honor of the longest night of the year.

  • Iranian poet Ibn Yamin’s mausoleum named national heritage 2022-06-29 18:31

    Iranian poet Ibn Yamin’s mausoleum named national heritage

    TEHRAN – Mausoleum of 14th-century Iranian poet Ibn Yamin, in full Amir Fakhruddin Mahmoud bin Amir Yamin al-Din, has been named a national cultural heritage.

  • House of late illustrious poet now open to public   2021-11-14 21:30

    House of late illustrious poet now open to public  

    Wax figures of contemporary Iranian literary figures Nima Yushij, Sohrab Sepehri, Simin Daneshvar, and Jalal Al-e-Ahmad (from R to L) have been put on show at the newly-restored house of Yushij in northern Tehran, November 13, 2021.