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The Museum of Sacrifice and Martyrdom in Ardakan

The invasion of Iran by the Iraqi Baath army and the self-sacrifices made by the youths of Ardakan in defense of the motherland is the main subject of the Museum of Sacrifice and Martyrdom in Ardakan.

Yazd

Having numerous historical, religious, and natural tourist attractions and being one of the most traditional Iranian cities in the post-Islamic era, Yazd is considered to be one of the best tourist destinations of Iran

Persian Azadi International Hotel

Different Experience of a 5-Star Hotel in Tehran The purpose of Tehran Persian Azadi Hotel from the beginning has been rendering 5-star services to those guests who wish to experience such services and take benefit from the traditional Iranian guest respecting.

Iranian Kachi of Abuzaid Abad

The Kachi of Abuzaid Abad is not merely a food or a pudding, but cooking and serving it is accompanied by customs that help families to be more compassionate towards each other

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The Delicate Art of Carving on Glass

Some crafts are so subtle and sensitive that even making a small mistake destroys the effort of the craftsman. A subject that shows the importance of experience in the delicate art of carving on glass.

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Hawkbell Handicraft Industry of Sarayan

Sarayan is one of the eastern regions of Iran and hawkbell making is considered one of its native handicrafts

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An Overview of the Well-known Iranian Art

Iranian art is part of its cultural and civilizational identity and it has attracted the attention of many art-loving people of the world.

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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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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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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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Gando

Mohammad is commissioned to investigate an expansive spy network and faces a lot of problems from someone called Michael, who is one of America’s top spies who engages in espionage under the guise of a reporter. This serial, which is based on a real case, depicts a cat-and-mouse game between two competitors who try to outdo each other with their intelligence and skills.

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Ahmed

Ahmed is the story of the early hours of Bam earthquake in 2002 and the arrival of General Ahmad Kazemi, the commander of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Air Force, at Bam airport and the process of transporting more than 10,000 injured people by this disaster in less than 24 hours.

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My Sky

The story of a group of unassuming people who do their best to make the flights a pleasant, peaceful, and comfortable trip for the passengers of the plane.

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History

This series is trying to read the history of the colonizers' thoughts and their worldview for their audience by reviewing the pages and historical stories in the 15-volume collection of Colonial History. The narrator is a teenager thatexplains and analyses the events.

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Takiah Dowlat

Takiah Dowlat is one of the most important monuments of the Qajar era (1821 - 1925 AD). This monument, which had been built for performing such rituals as Taziyeh - one of the traditional and religious arts and rituals of Iran - has had an important impact on the revival of this art and architecture of Iran.

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One Thousand and One Night

SYNOPSIS: This series is an adaptation of the original story “One Thousand and One Nights" a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales. The story takes place in 3 different times and locations. First, the Current time in Tehran, Second, the Current time in Istanbul, Turkey, and third an ancient time in a world called “The World of Imagination”. The World of Imagination is parallel to the current time, and these worlds have a reciprocal effect on one another. The story begins after a series of women’s kidnappings in the city of Tehran and…..

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Domes in Iranian Architecture: The Earthly Sky From Structure to Meaning

The Iranian dome teaches us that an architectural element can be functional, beautiful, and meaningful at the same time. It can meet human physical needs, nourish the spirit, and serve as a symbol of a nation s culture and civilization.

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Soltaniyeh Dome (Mausoleum)

Soltanieh complex, which includes a dome, a tomb, and a cellar, is located 39 km southeast of the city of Zanjan.

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Zinat al Moluk House, Shiraz Where a Historic Home Becomes a Museum in the City of Poetry

Zinat al Moluk House is a place for living, characterized by its garden like entrance and landscaped forecourt instead of enclosed vestibules, its human scale and intimate spatial character rather than grandeur and formal ceremonial design and its successful and creative adaptive reuse of historic buildings.

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The Sanjesh (Measure) Museum of Tabriz

This museum was established within the vicinity of the Salmasi House in the year 2001 CE. The Salmasi House had been built in the year 1381 AH/1961 CE within an area of 650 sq. meters and on two floors the total area of which stands at 875 sq. meters.

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Sheikh Haidar’s Mausoleum

Sheikh Haidar’s Mausoleum is located in the Meshginshahr City of Ardabil Province of Iran.

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Iranian Tomb Gardens: The Architecture of Memory When a Tomb Becomes a Garden

What message do Iranian tomb gardens have for the modern world? In an age when death in modern culture has often become hidden, sanitized, and detached from everyday life, Iranian tomb gardens remind us that a tomb can—and should—remain a living part of the urban fabric and the lives of its people.

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Dastan-e Rastan: A Selection of the Best Edifying Stories

The purpose of compiling Stories of the Righteous is to explain ethical and educational points in simple language for the young generation of society.

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Islam and education a path to reforming oneself and society.

Great people always have a big question before them: How can we lead ourselves and society towards salvation The answer that Islam and Education seeks to find.

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Endowment Deed of Rab’-e Rashidi

Endowment Deeds of Rab’-e Rashidi is a 700-year-old document (book) consisting of an extensive list of endowments and how the income from them was spent to support scientific activities.

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Sages of the Isfahan School and the Issue of the Origin of the World, an examination of the Isfahan School philosophers view

The book Sages of the Isfahan School and a Study of the Creation of the World ex Nihilo is one of Dr. Nazari Tavakkoli’s well known books.

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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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Bakhtiari Music in Nowruz

Bakhtiari folk music is the manifestation of Bakhtiari culture and the one played to welcome the spring and Nowruz is full of joy and delight.

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Dutar

Dutar, the art of making and playing which has been inscribed on the UNESCO List of World Intangible Heritage, is one of the cultural elements of the north and northeast regions of Iran.

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Sorna in Lak Music

The scope of Lak music is quite unique and Sorna and Dohol are its main musical instruments.

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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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Nay

Ney or Nay is a woodwind Persian musical instrument

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The Bakhshi Music of Khorasan

The Bakhshi music of Khorasan, which has its own special characteristics expresses the rich and noble culture of the people of the region.

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Mirza Gholamreza Esfahani: The Calligrapher Who Sought Help from Imam Ali (AS)

Mirza Gholamreza Esfahani, a renowned calligrapher of the Qajar era, is considered a distinguished figure in the history of Iranian calligraphy, having produced first-rate works in various scripts.

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Darvish ʿAbdolmajid Taleqani: Pioneer of Shekasteh-Nastaliq in Iran

Darvish ʿAbdolmajid Taleqani was the most prominent calligrapher of the Shekasteh-Nastaliq style in 12th-century Iran, and many calligraphy scholars consider him the greatest master in the history of this script.

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Emad al-Ketab: Reviver of Persian Calligraphy

Mirza Mohammad Hossein Sifi Qazvini, known as Emad al-Ketab, is considered one of the most prominent figures in the history of Iranian calligraphy in the Nastaʿlīq style and the final link in the golden chain of the old masters of this distinguished Iranian-Islamic art. Living during the Constitutional Revolution era, he used his exceptional talent, abundant creativity, and tireless effort to serve as the connecting point between contemporary calligraphers and the school of Mirza Mohammad Reza Kalleh.

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Reza Abbasi: The Pinnacle of the Isfahan School of Persian Miniature Painting

Reza Abbasi was a highly skilled and innovative artist, widely renowned during the Safavid period, whose outstanding works played a pivotal role in the development of Iranian art. His artistic innovations—particularly in composition, color, and subject matter—brought about a profound transformation in Persian painting. Abbasi’s pioneering approach laid the foundation for the Isfahan School of painting in the early 11th century AH, establishing a new visual language that combined traditional Persian techniques with innovative stylistic elements. Through his works, he elevated the aesthetic standards of miniature painting and inspired generations of artists in the Safavid and subsequent periods.

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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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Iranian Painting: The Harmonious Melody of Color and Design on a White Canvas

Painting is one of the key branches of visual arts, in which the artist conveys ideas and emotions using colors, techniques, and tools such as brushes, pencils, or pastels, creating images on surfaces like paper, canvas, or walls. It is among the oldest and most significant art forms, employed to express emotions, reflect realities, visualize imagination, and communicate a wide range of concepts.

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Abd al-Rahman Jami and Islamic Gnosticism

Abd al-Rahman Jami managed to insert mysticism into the hearts of Iranian readers. The fluency of his prose helped Iranian readers get familiar with Islamic mysticism.

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Attar Neyshabouri

Farid al-Din Abu Ḥamed Mohammad bin Abu Bakr, popularly known as Attar Neyshabouri - one of the renowned Iranian mystics and poet of the Persian language - was born in the Kadkan district of the city of Neyshabour in the year 1146 CE.

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Omar Khayyam: A Scientist and Poet of Global Fame

Khayyam was a great Iranian scientist and mathematician who is world-renowned mostly for his poetry.

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Jalal al-Din Mohammad Balkhi

Jalal al-Din Mohammad Balkhi, popularly known as Mawlawi, Mawlana, and Rumi, and one of the most famous Iranian poets, was born in the city of Balkh of the Greater Khorasan in September 1207 CE. His full name was “Mohammad ibn Mohammad ibn Hossein Hosseini Khatibi Bakri Balkhi” and during his lifetime he was called “Jalal al-Din”, “Khodawandegar” and "Mawlana Khodawandegar”.

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Shahriyar: A Lifetime of Pure Love

What has been behind by Shahriyar as his heritage is just love and love and love!

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Parvin Etesami

Rakhshandeh Etesami, popularly known as Parvin Etesami, one of the most famous contemporary Iranian poets, who has been described as “the most famous female poet of Iran was born in the city of Tabriz on March 17, 1906 CE.

Customs of Iran

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Alam Gardani in Siah Saran Village

Alam Gardani is a ceremony held in the first decade of the month of Muharram participated by the residents of the three villages of Siah Aaran, Zaviyeh, and Livarjan in Jolfa County.

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The History of Nowruz

Nowruz marks the beginning of spring and the new year for Iranians and they have been celebrating it since ancient times.

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Shabih Khwani in Bkhshayesh

Every year, tens of thousands of people attend the Shabih Khwani ceremony in Bakhshayesh City of East Azarbaijan.

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The skill of dismantling and erecting a nomadic tent, a heritage born of nature.

Over the centuries, the nomads of East Azerbaijan have developed unique and interesting methods for dismantling and erecting nomadic yurts.

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Nakhl Gardani

Nakhl Gardani (also called Khal Bardari) is a symbolic ritual performed by the people of Yazd to commemorate Imam Husain’s (AS) martyrdom on the Day of Ashura and although this ritual is performed in several central regions of Iran, Yazd is considered its origin.

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Mid-Sha’ban Ceremony in the Ahmadadabad City of Ardakan County

On the eve of the 15th day of the month of Sha’ban, the people of Ahmadabad of Ardakan welcome the grand Mid-Sha’ban festivity by giving sweets and gifts to their children.

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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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