March 2016
Samin Baghcheban Returns with Chaharshanbeh Soori Few years after the saddening death of the best preserver of the Iranian people’s childhood memories in operatic collection, […]
March
Homage to Modern Scheherazade of Iran
Most of Daneshvar’s protagonists are women; her attention to women’s lives and their characters were unprecedented in the fictional literature of Iran. The women she portrayed are unalike those that her famous contemporaries
Parvin Etesami Awards
Acclaimed Iranian poetess, Parvin Etesesami, was born in Tabriz in 1907. Her first collection of poems was published in 1935 and she received the 3rd […]
RIP Richard Nelson Frye
Regarded as the “dean of the world’s Iranists,” Eminent American scholar and Iranologist Richard Nelson Frye passed away on March 27, 2014 aged 94. He […]
From Pariz to Paris to Paradise: Bastani Parizi passes away
Mohammad-Ebrahim Bastani Parizi, Iranian writer, researcher, historian and University of Tehran’s Emeritus Professor passed away yesterday (March 25) at age 89. Born in Pariz town […]