Tuesday, March 21, 2023

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Prima Ballerina Haydeh Changizian Dreams of Reopening A Ballet School in Iran

By Katy Shahandeh Haydeh Changizian is an artist with an illustrious past. Formerly a Prima Ballerina...
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Kayhan Life Interviews Niyaz, the Iranian Musical Duo 

By Ahmad Rafat Niyaz is an Iranian musical duo created by the singer Azam Ali —...

Getty Villa’s Open-Air Persian Concerts Feature Fared Shafinury, Awardwinning Setar Virtuoso

By Fred Parvaneh On June 25, 2022, Farhang Foundation, a nonprofit organization established to celebrate and...

Iran Arrests Four Female Vocalists; Women Face More and More Constraints

By Kayhan Life Staff Authorities in Minab, in the southern province of Hormozgan, arrested four female...
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INTERVIEW: Israeli-Iranian Singer Liraz Charhi to Debut Her Album “Zan” In London Concert

By Ahmad Rafat Liraz Charhi, a 31-year-old Israeli Singer of Iranian descent, will debut her album...

INTERVIEW: Singer Niaz Nawab Fuses Persian Poetry With Western Sound

By Fred Parvaneh   Niaz Nawab is an Iranian-born singer, songwriter, multi-instrumental musician, and music teacher currently...

INTERVIEW: Hollywood Soundtrack Composer, Niyaz Founder Loga Ramin Torkian

By Fred Parvaneh Loga Ramin Torkian is an Iranian-born instrumentalist and composer and co-founder of the...

Singing About Hijab: Pop Vocalist Golazin Speaks to Kayhan Life

By Ahmad Rafat Golazin Ardestani, better known as “Golazin” or “Gola,” is an Iranian-born Trap pop...

Googoosh Embarks on World Tour, Releases Album 21 Years After Her Comeback

By Nazanine Nouri Googoosh, one of the most influential Iranian pop artists of all time and...

EXCLUSIVE: The Sweet Destiny of Arash Sobhani, The Kiosk Band Leader Speaks to Kayhan Life

By Ahmad Rafat Arash Sobhani is the founder of the pioneering Iranian rock group Kiosk. An...

Remembering Iradj Bagherzade: Celebrated Publisher, Founder of IB Tauris 

By Kayhan Life Staff Iradj Bagherzade, a leading international publisher of books on Middle East politics and history, passed away at his home in London...

Iran’s Government Closes Children’s Libraries to Cut Costs

By Kayhan Life Staff The Iranian government recently announced its plan to close some 1,000 libraries belonging to the Institute for the Development of Children...

Author Nazila Fathi, Ex-New York Times Reporter, Releases Children’s Book

By Nazanine Nouri Nazila Fathi is an Iranian-American author and a former New York Times reporter in Tehran. Fathi emigrated to Canada and later the U.S....

“Exiles from Paradise”: Novelist Brigitte Adès Explores the Life of Iranians in the West

By Firouzeh Nabavi Brigitte Adès is a French journalist and author who, for the past 25 years, has been the UK bureau chief of the...

Jewish-Iranian Industrialist Habib Elghanian Is Remembered in Granddaughter’s Book: Interview

By Nazanine Nouri Habib Elghanian was one of the most prominent industrialists in pre-revolutionary Iran. From modest beginnings, he worked his way up to running...

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Soccer-Russia Invited To Play in Central Asian Soccer Tournament With Iran

March 14 (Reuters) - Russia have been invited to compete in the Central Asian Football Association (CAFA) Championship in June, amid speculation over a switch to the Asian confederation (AFC) as the country seeks a return to international competition. Russian teams have been suspended from European and...

Soccer-Ghalenoei Returns To Lead Iran to Asian Cup Finals

March 12 (Reuters) - Amir Ghalenoei has been appointed the new head coach of Iran, the country's football federation announced on Sunday. The 59-year-old replaces Carlos Queiroz, who led the country to the last three World Cup tournaments during two spells in charge. Queiroz stood down after the...

Soccer-Iran’s Foolad Confirm Head Coach Departure Ahead of Asian Quarterfinal

By Michael Church Feb 22 (Reuters) - Asian Champions League quarterfinalists Foolad confirmed on Wednesday that Javad Nekounam has quit as the Iranian side's head coach, less than two days before the team is due to face defending champions Al Hilal from Saudi Arabia. A statement by the...

Soccer- Iran’s Foolad To Play Saudi Arabia’s Al Hilal at Asian Champions League

By Michael Church HONG KONG, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's Al Hilal will resume their quest for a record-extending fifth Asian Champions League crown on Monday, a little over a week after finishing as runners-up behind Real Madrid at the FIFA Club World Cup. The Riyadh-based outfit,...

Pussy Riot Members Detained at World Cup Final for Supporting Iran Protests, Denouncing Navalny Imprisonment, Activists Say

By Sabine Siebold and Lidia Kelly Dec 19 (Reuters) - Members of Russia's Pussy Riot band were detained on Sunday after trying to storm the pitch at the World Cup final in Qatar to protest the war in Ukraine, the imprisonment of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and the oppression of women in...

Soccer-World Cup 2022: Which Teams Are Out of FIFA Tournament?

Dec 4 (Reuters) - With the World Cup in Qatar having entered its knockout phase, here is an overview of the teams that have been eliminated from the tournament, which ends on Dec. 18. WHAT IS THE FORMAT FOR THE TOURNAMENT? * A round-robin format with each of...

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Toxic Smog: Iran’s Government Criticised for Winter ‘Air Pollution Catastrophe’

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ANALYSIS: Mapping Iran’s Biodiversity Hotspots To Create New Protected Areas

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Earthquake Victims in Northwest Iran Get Poor Emergency Aid

By Kayhan Life Staff Failure to provide emergency aid to the victims of a 5.9-magnitude earthquake that struck Khoi and surrounding villages, in the northwestern...

ANALYSIS: Will Iran’s Climate Inaction Fuel Rising Disaster Threats?

By Sanam Mahoozi LONDON, Sept 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In just over a year, Iran has endured deadly flash floods, crop-ruining drought, punishing dust storms and heatwaves...

Tehran Abstains on UN Resolution on the Right to a Clean...

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Tehran Grants Bail to British-Iranian Environmentalist on Security Charges – Lawyer

DUBAI, July 27 (Reuters) - Iran has granted bail to British-Iranian environmentalist Morad Tahbaz, who has been convicted of security offences, his lawyer was quoted as saying by...
DUBAI, March 19 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz has invited Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi to Riyadh, an Iranian official said on Sunday. Mohammad Jamshidi, the political deputy at the Iranian president's office, wrote on Twitter that King Salman had...
By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD, March 19 (Reuters) - Iraq and Iran signed a border security agreement on Sunday, a move Iraqi officials said aimed primarily at tightening the frontier with Iraq's Kurdish region, where Tehran says armed Kurdish dissidents pose a threat...
DUBAI, March 20 (Reuters) - The two sides in Yemen's conflict on Monday said they had agreed to exchange some 880 detainees after talks in Switzerland facilitated by the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross. The head of...
By Rachna Uppal RIYADH, March 15 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan said on Wednesday that Saudi investments into Iran could happen "very quickly" following an agreement to restore diplomatic ties. "There are a lot of opportunities for Saudi investments in Iran. We don't...
DUBAI, March 18 (Reuters) - An Iranian court has handed out death sentences to two men over an attack on a Shi'ite shrine in Iran that killed 15 people in October and was claimed by the militant group Islamic State, the...
PARIS, March 17 (Reuters) - The French government said on Friday that "no-one should escape justice", as it reacted to the International Criminal Court's (ICC) decision to issue an arrest warrant for Russia President Vladimir Putin. "No-one responsable for crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine, regardless...
March 17 (Reuters) - Following are reactions to the news on Friday that the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of the war crime of illegal deportation of children from Ukraine. The...
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London, 10 December 2022 – Persia’s Independent Panel of Scholars chose two outstanding Iranian women as inaugural recipients of its Ansari Scholarship for Human Rights & Public Service. Persia Educational Foundation established the Ansari Scholarship in remembrance of its Founder,...
To: The Honorable Rajab Tayeb Erdogan, President of the Republic of Turkey From: A number of endangered Iranian reporters and journalists residing in Turkey Subject: Report of status and request to facilitate relocation to a third country We, a number of...
23 August 20212 To: The United States, President, Joe Biden The United Nations, Secretary-General, António Guterres Cc: The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, Javaid Rehman Do not allow Ebrahim Raisi to enter the US, he must be arrested and tried...
3 July 2022 Alexander De Croo Prime Minister of Belgium Rue de la Loi 16 BE-1000 Brussels Mr Prime Minister Prisoners swap between the Belgium Kingdom and Islamic Republic of Iran Your government's proposed bill that authorizes the transfer of convicted criminals between the Islamic...