Genius Mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani Is Remembered in Documentary: Interview
By Firoozeh Nordstrom
Maryam Mirzakhani was the first woman to win the world’s most prestigious mathematics prize, the Fields Medal. George Csicsery’s “Secrets of the Surface” is the first feature-length film about the life and...
Iranians Celebrate Nowruz, Mark the Start of the Year 1401 With Worldwide Festivities
By Nazanine Nouri
More than 300 million people around the world are celebrating Nowruz, the Persian New Year, in festivities, gatherings and celebrations all over the world this month. Nowruz celebrates the return of spring...
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 a business empire in plastics, mining, real estate, construction, and...
At Art Dubai, Farideh Lashai Is Remembered In Special Display: Interview
By Rawaa Talass
Nine years ago, Iran lost one of its most prominent female artists, Farideh Lashai, after a long battle with cancer. Yet Lashai’s memory lives on.
Her abstract works were a highlight of this...
Life At the Italian Embassy in Tehran: Ambassador’s Daughter Writes Graphic Novel
By Ahmad Rafat
Chiara Mezzalama has a special relationship with Iran: She moved there two years after the 1979 Revolution when her father, Francesco Mezzalama, became the Italian ambassador to Tehran. They lived in the...
Iranian Artists Show Work in New “DC Unsettled” Exhibition in Washington
By Firouzeh Nabavi
“DC Unsettled” is the title of a new exhibition in Washington, D.C. organized by the Art4US artist cooperative. Artists and poets reflect on what DC means to them — through painting, photography,...
Iranian-Born Journalist Farah Nayeri Releases Book on Art and Censorship
By Natasha Phillips
Artists are regularly monitored and censored nowadays in places such as the Middle East and Asia. According to a new book by Farah Nayeri, they face complicated challenges in the West, too.
In...
Iranian Experts Discover Cuneiform Tablet Dating Back to Reign of Xerxes I
By Kayhan Life Staff
Experts at the Takhte Jamshid World Heritage’s Research Center for Paleography — the study of historical writing — have discovered a limestone tablet written in cuneiform inside the archives of the...
Art by Mohassess, Nicky Nodjoumi Goes On Show in Dastan Gallery’s London Exhibition
By Nazanine Nouri
The Dastan Gallery, one of Tehran’s leading art dealerships, has opened an exhibition in London that ends March 1 and is the first in a series. The venue is No. 9 Cork...
Outstanding Safavid Textiles, Oil Paintings Go On Show at Smithsonian in Washington
By Nazanine Nouri
An exceptional collection of 17th-century textiles and full-length oil portraits from Safavid Iran (1501-1722) has gone on display for the first time in the United States at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of...
