Memorial notes, a travel in time
Abbas Kiarostami, the award-winning Iranian director whose 1997 film Taste of Cherry was awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival, died aged 76, following […]
1. Iranian anthropologist Jaber Anasori dies at 71 Prominent Iranian anthropologist Jaber Anasori, mostly famous for his lifetime of study and research on Iranian ritual […]
Ghasem Hasheminejad, author of breakthrough novel ‘Elephant in the Dark’ and eminent scholar in classical Persian literature passed away today, Friday 1st April, having suffered […]
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
Today (February 26) coincides with the 60th death anniversary of the great author of the Persian Encyclopedia. Ali Akbar Dehkhoda was born in Tehran, 1879. […]
There are not many literary scholars in the history of Persian literature who are also great poets; neither are there many poets who made it […]
The demise of Gabriel Garcia Marquez is more than a casual newspaper heading. It’s the death of a gigantic writer whose mighty pen and magic […]
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 […]
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 […]
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