“Persian Visions: Contemporary Photography from Iran,” featuring 58 works of photography and video by 20 Iranian photographers, is one-half of a cultural exchange with a gallery at the ...

and it is only when you familiarize yourself with the history of Persian photography [that you can] appreciate Ghadirian’s attention to detail,” Kristen Gresh, the curator of the touring ...

You have worked on both classical and modern Persian poetry. Would you please tell us about the nature of your research and works? Your "other" passion is photography. In the past three decades ...

Students sang classical Persian tunes or played Persian instruments, such as the tombak, a type of percussion instrument, and the setar, a guitar-like instrument, before the ensemble disbanded in ...

He was educated first in Persian and then Western classical music ... it was easy to get lost in the haunting sounds of their ancient instruments. Erzincan's baglama, a pear-shaped lute, had ...

For the older folks, there will be traditional Persian instruments, literature and handiwork, as well as performances of Persian music and dance. “For more than a century, the presence of ...

“The History of Musical Instruments” is an unabridged republication of the 1940 W.W. Norton edition by leading musicologist Curt Sachs, who was co-devisor of the Hornbostel-Sachs classification scheme ...

He added, “In my view photography is at the core of cinema and ‘Story of Photography’ looks at the art of photography from this aspect.” Veteran Iranian actor Reza Kianian expressed his appreciation ...