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Museum of Ancient Iran

The Museum of Ancient Iran, the first museum in Iran, is located in the western part of Mashq Square on Si Tir Street in Tehran.

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The word Bagh (garden), in Middle Manichaean Persian

Parsian Esteghlal International 5-Star Hotel

Parsian Esteghlal International Hotel, part of the Parsian International Hotels Group, is located on a 70,000-square-meter estate in Tehran’s Baghshahr area at the foot of the Alborz Mountains.

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Iranian Handicraftse, Manifestation of Art and Civilization

With their diversity and elegance, Iranian handicrafts are the manifestation of the artistic taste and talent of Iranians and their culture and civilization

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Carpet Weaving in Nahavand

Nahavand carpet is famous for using unique designs and special and unique colors.

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Mehriz Knife

Knife making is one of the famous handicrafts of the historical city of Mehriz in Yazd Province and its products used to be sent all over Iran.

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Fars Carpet

Carpet weaving is one of Iran’s handcrafts, and having special designs and patterns Fars carpet has carved a niche for itself.

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Koozehkonan Pottery

Koozehkonan pottery artists engage in making pottery with the skills they have learned from their earlier generations.

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Zilu

Zilu, is an Iranian handicraft, very similar to Gilim, with the difference that its texture is made of completely natural and plant-based materials.

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The Symphony of Simurgh

This documentary depicts the relationship and struggles between man and birds. In the Symphony of Simurgh, the audience sees a frightened and confused bird in an almost lifeless natural pond trying to save life. The documentary then pictures a dynamic and green wetland the inhabitants of which are struggling to survive.

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Nika and I

A comedy animation series about a brother and sister named “Ahmad and Zahra” living with their parents in their beautiful home. Two angels named “Nick and Nika”, too, live with them. Ahmad and Zahra always do good deeds and the angels also try to help them. Since these angels are a little naughty and everything is new to them, they create funny problems that are solved with the help of Ahmad and Zahra.

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For Ms. F.

The memories of Seyyed Ahmad Nabavi and his wife based on the letters they sent to each other during the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988 AD), which speak of less-heard emotional moments in the atmosphere of war and the sacrifice made by the wives of the combatants.

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The Fall

The serial is about the simple and modest life of Aisan after marrying his wife Jakan, which eventually ends with him having ISIS inclinations. The serial depicts Aysan’s difficult and challenging life after entering the city of Mosul (one of the Iraqi cities under the control of ISIS at that time). After the death of his wife, and while living among the ISIS people, Aisan tries to save himself and his child from this predicament at any cost.

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Borqeh

This documentary is about the producer’s encounter with his own childhood nostalgia and deals with his difficult childhood and its effects on his presentday life. In spite of being discouraged by the people around him, this producer ventures into the place where he spent his childhood to produce this documentary.

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The Painting Pool

Reza and Maryam are a mentally disabled couple, but their 11-year-old son, Sohail, is completely healthy and normal. Reza and Maryam’s romantic life is going on smoothly until Sohail starts to act peevishly.

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Timcheh (Arcade)

Timcheh is a Persian word meaning anything round, compact, and expansive, which usually refers to the centers of large commercial activities and, in other words, the center of several similar business houses.

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The Iranian City

If you look at an Iranian city from above, it looks almost like a living organism. Not like modern cities, with their grid-like streets and orderly towers. The old cities of Iran are winding and intricate, with crooked alleys and a dense, interconnected urban fabric. From above, all you see are flat rooftops, domes, windcatchers, and minarets. But once you enter on foot, you begin to understand that this complexity is not accidental. Every alley, every dead end, every little square had a place in the lives of the people who lived there.

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Emarat-e Malek (Malek Mansion)

The Malek palace in Bushehr is located near this city (homonymous region) and dates back to the end of the qajaro period. It was built by the architects as a building complex and supervised by French engineers using local materials in architectural style that derives from the antiquity of the Persian Gulf coast, known as Bangaleh.

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Iranian Architecture, An Encounter with Iran

When someone sets foot in Iran for the first time, before words or books can say anything, the buildings themselves begin the conversation. The wooden doors of traditional houses, sometimes fitted with different knockers for men and women, courtyards filled with pomegranate trees and domes that, from a distance, seem like blue skies resting upon the earth all speak to the traveler from that very first moment to understand this land, you must experience it through its architecture.

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The Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System: A Masterpiece of Ancient Civil Engineering.

The Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System, with a history of nearly two thousand years, is one of the most astonishing engineering achievements of ancient civilizations.

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Dezful A City of Brick and River An Architectural Masterpiece in Northern Khuzestan

The historic urban fabric of Dezful is one of the most extensive and best-preserved brick-built urban fabrics in Iran. Constructed from fired bricks in warm, earthy tones, it encompasses numerous historic houses, mosques, bathhouses, and traditional bazaars. Historic houses in Dezful, such as Tizno House, Zargar House, and Sohrabi House, are outstanding examples of residential architecture adapted to the city’s hot and humid climate. With their central courtyards, water pools, cool underground chambers known as shavaduns, and brick windcatchers, these houses provided a pleasant and comfortable living environment during Khuzestan’s long, hot summers.

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Makhtumqoli Faraghi

Makhtumqoli Faraghi (Magtymguly Pyragy in Turkmen dialect) was a Turkmen spiritual leader and philosophical poet, whose position and his poems in Turkmen literature and culture is unparalleled.

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My Model for a world that thirsts for another way.

Modernity has distracted man from spirituality and caused him to become alienated. Therefore, another path must be taken...

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A Journey Through the Conduct of the Imams: In Search of an Answer to the Enigma of War or Peace

A study of the lives of the Imams examines the approach of the Imams (peace be upon them) in dealing with the issue of the caliphate and government.

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History of Persian Literature , politicization of the history of Persian literature

So far, many studies have been conducted on the rich Persian culture and literature, among which History of Persian Literature is one of the most prominent.

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Ali (AS) and Divine Philosophy, an attempt to reconcile religion and philosophy

The book Ali (as) and Divine Philosophy attempts to explain divine philosophy from the perspective of Imam Ali (as).

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Barbat

Barbat is an Iranian instrument that may seem to be the same as the Arabic oud to common people. However, the longevity of this instrument is much more than that of oud.

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Kamanche

Kamanche is an Iranian instrument, similar to violin & bass

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Azari Music

Azari music is an important part of the culture of the Azari-speaking people of Iran, which has evolved throughout history.

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Ashiqi Music

The “Ashiqi” or “Ashiki” music of Azarbaijan is one of the richest “maqami” styles of Iranian music, in which various narratives are expressed in the form of songs.

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Tas

“Tas” is a type of Kurdish percussion instrument that is mostly used in the monastic (khanqah) traditional music of Kurdistan and is considered very important.

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Nawha-khwani in Yazd

The most important manifestation of music in the culture of the people of Yazd is reciting elegies in the mourning programs of the month of Muharram

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Ibn Muqla: The Innovative Calligrapher

Ibn Muqla is considered one of the most influential figures in the illustrious realm of Iranian calligraphy. Through his unparalleled dedication and creativity, he was able to develop and perfect the six canonical scripts—Muḥaqqaq, Rayḥān, Thuluth, Naskh, Ruqʿah, and Tawqiʿ—thereby leaving a lasting legacy for this quintessentially Iranian-Islamic art.

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Persian Miniature Painting: An Art Inscribed on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List

Miniature painting, considered one of the diverse branches of visual arts, is an authentic and captivating art form that combines delicate, imaginative, and finely detailed illustrations with both decorative and functional qualities

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Kamal-ud-Din Behzad: The Second Mani or the Raphael of the East

Kamal-ud-Din Behzad was a renowned and highly skilled Iranian painter who opened a new path in the realm of Persian miniature painting and left a profound and widespread influence on the work of later artists in Iran, India, Turkey, and Central Asia.

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Persian Calligraphy

Persian calligraphy or Iranian calligraphy is one of the most revered arts of Iran, which has gradually evolved and many calligraphers have contributed to different genres of this art. Nastaliq is an outstanding genre of Persian calligraphy that has come to be known as the most beautiful human calligraphy.

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Mirza Mohammad Reza Kalhor and the Revival of Nastaliq Script

Mirza Mohammad Reza Kalhor was a renowned and skilled calligrapher of the Qajar era, recognized among the prominent Nastaliq masters in the history of Iranian visual arts. Through his innate talent and creativity, he succeeded in establishing a fresh, distinctive, and enduring style in Nastaliq calligraph.

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Mahmoud Farshchian: The Shining Star of Iran’s Art Scene

Mahmoud Farshchian is a highly skilled and internationally renowned Iranian artist, recognized as a master of Persian miniature painting. His innovative and conceptually rich works, created over the course of his prolific artistic career, have earned him widespread admiration and respect among art scholars and enthusiasts worldwide.

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Rumi: The Unique Iranian Poet and Mystic

Mawlana Jalal al-Din Balkhi, Rumi, is a great Persian-speaking poet and mystic who lived in the 7th century AH/13th century AD.

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Rudaki

Abu Abdullah Jafar ibn Mohammad, popularly known as Rudaki was the first great poet of the Persian language and is referred to as the father of Persian poetry. Rudaki was born in the Rudak district of the city of Samarqand in the year 858 CE. At the age of eight, he learned and memorized the Holy Qur’an and simultaneously began his poetry

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Attar Neyshabouri: Why He Should Be Known Aknew

Being a great personality, many stories have been told about Attar Neyshaburi’s life.

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Qeysar Aminpour (Khuzestan)

Qeysar Aminpour is one of the most influential poets of the post-Iranian Revolution period. He has written poems about Iran-Iraq War, as well as poems in classic and modern style. Some believe that he shifted from poems about the war to poems about love, and others know him to be the greatest poet of Iranian Revolution.

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Abu Nasr Muhammad bin Muhammad Farabi

Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Farabi was one the earliest Islamic intellectuals who was instrumental in transmitting the doctrines of Plato and Aristotle to the Muslim world. He had a considerable influence on the later Islamic philosophers such as Avicenna.

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Al-Biruni: A Role Model of Avoiding Fanaticism

Al-Biruni is said to be one of the greatest and most influential scientists of the 10th and 11th century CE.

Customs of Iran

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The View of the People Shiraz about Seville Orange Tree

The people of Shiraz highly honor and respect the “Seville Orange Tree” and observe certain special customs in handling it.

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Muharram In Yazd

Muharram is the month in which Iranians commemorate the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Husain (AS).

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The Story of Asli and Karam

The story of Asli and Karam is considered to be the greatest oral heritage of the Azarbaijani people, which is narrated by Ashiqs/Ashiks in gatherings and in the form of a folklore song.

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Sizdah Bedar (the thirteenth day of Farvardin)

Sizdah Bedar is the thirteenth day of Farvardin and one of the Nowruz celebrations of Iran. In the official calendars of Iran, after the revolution, this day has been named Nature Day and is an official holiday.

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Nowruz Sabzeh: Green Sprouts

As a traditional custom the people of Iran plant grains of wheat and/or lentil in pots as a sign of divine blessing and abundance in the New Year (Nowruz), which turn into green sprouts and are placed on the Nowruz table.

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The Story of Asli and Karam

The story of Asli and Karam is considered to be the greatest oral heritage of the Azarbaijani people, which is narrated by Ashiqs/Ashiks in gatherings and in the form of a folklore song

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Kousha University of Applied Science and Technology: Bridging Skills-Based, Industrial, and Practical Education with Labor Marke

Kousha University of Applied Science and Technology: A higher education institution dedicated to enhancing students’ scientific and technical knowledge and equipping them with the skills needed to undertake practical and industrial projects.

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Karaj Sugar Applied Science and Technology Center: One of the Modern Institutions of Skills-Based and Industrial Higher Educatio

Karaj Sugar Applied Science and Technology Center: Bridging Skills-Based Education, Industry, and Entrepreneurship to Meet the Needs of the Country’s Industries

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Isfahan City Center Comprehensive Center for Applied Science and Technology: Integrating Skills-Based Education, Employment-Orie

Isfahan City Center Comprehensive Center for Applied Science and Technology: A Modern Institution for Skills-Based Higher Education, Adopting a Practical Approach Aligned with Labor Market Standards.

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Kermanshah University of Technology: Bridging Engineering Education, Research, and Technological Development in Western Iran

Kermanshah University of Technology aims to train specialized professionals, meet the needs of industries in Kermanshah Province and western Iran, and advance the development of modern technologies across various industries.

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Qom University of Technology: Bridging Engineering Education, Research, and Industrial Development in the Province

Qom University of Technology: A University Focused on Engineering and Technology Education, Fostering an Innovative Environment for Training Professional Engineers

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Shahid Ashrafi Esfahani Non-Profit University: Connecting Education, Research, and the Development of Academic Skills

Shahid Ashrafi Esfahani Non-Profit University: Providing Quality Education, Advancing Academic and Research Activities, Enhancing Society’s Cultural Standards, and Educating Competent Graduates

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