Thursday, May 9, 2024

In Memoriam: Hormoz Hekmat

4343 Montgomery Avenue, Suite 200, Bethesda, Maryland 20814 1-301-657-1990 www.fis-iran.org In Memoriam It is with great sorrow that the board of directors of the Foundation for Iranian Studies announces the passing of Dr. Hormoz Hekmat on the first...

Remembering Mehdi Taheri, Artist and Miniaturist 

    Mehdi Taheri, a renowned artist and master of Persian miniature painting, passed away on April 16, 2022 in San Jose, California.  He was 93. Master Taheri was born into a prominent artistic family in...

Ebrahim Golestan, Celebrated Iranian Writer and Director, Dies Aged 101

By Kayhan Life Staff Seyyed Ebrahim Taghavi Shirazi, better known as Ebrahim Golestan -- a literary figure, screenwriter, filmmaker, translator, and a pioneer of Iranian “new wave” cinema --  died at his home in Britain,...

Remembering Prominent Iranian Author Abbas Maroufi

By Kayhan Life Staff The celebrated Iranian author, poet, playwright, journalist, and publisher Abbas Maroufi died on Sept. 1 in Berlin at age 65, after a long battle with cancer of the mouth and throat. “Our...

Mehdi Ebrahimian, Architect of Shah Abbas Hotel, Passes Away 

By Kayhan Life Staff Professor Mehdi Ebrahimian, who designed the legendary Shah Abbas Hotel in Isfahan, passed away on July 11 in Tehran. He was laid to rest in the Rezvan Garden cemetery, at his...

Death Notice: Bijan Kiani

"Surely we belong to Allah and indeed to Him, we shall return". (Al-Baqarah 2:156) To Allah We Belong and to Him is Our Return “Everyone is going to taste death, and We shall make a...

Remembering Massoumeh ‘Parvaneh’ Marzban, nee Mirfendereski

     Mrs. Massoumeh Marzban, wife of the late Ambassador Manoucher Marzban, passed away peacefully on the night of December 23rd, 2023. Known by her nickname Parvaneh, Mrs Marzban was born in Gorgan, Iran, on January...

Death Notice: Lady Akhtar Massoud

With great sadness, we announce the passing of Lady Akhtar Massoud, the daughter of Akbar Mirza Massoud Sarem-od-Dowlah and Lady Eftekhar Azam Atabak, and granddaughter of Massoud Mirza Zell-e Soltan. Lady Massoud died on Nov. 10, 2020,...

Iran’s Regime Accuses School Poisoning Suspects of Links to Foreign Media, Riots -State Media

DUBAI, March 7 (Reuters) - Iran arrested several people it said were linked to a wave of school poisonings and accused some of connections to "foreign-based dissident media" and recent riots, according to an Interior Ministry statement shared by state media on Tuesday. Over 1,000 girls have fallen ill...