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Tehran museum to display Persian historical calendars

Iran Visa: Tehran’s Malek Museum and Library will be displaying a collection of Persian historical calendars in an exhibition, which will open Monday. Different types of historical calendars including agricultural calendars, fishing calendars, and local calendars are among the items to go on show in the exhibit, the museum announced in a press release on Sunday. Entitled “Circulation of Time”, ...

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Persian version of “Daddy-Long-Legs” comes out in audio book

Iran Visa: A Persian audio book of American writer Jean Webster’s 1912 epistolary novel “Daddy-Long-Legs” has been published in Tehran. The audio book was unveiled during a ceremony at Tehran’s Book City Institute on Monday evening. The narrators of the audio book Zohreh Shokufandeh and Jorj Petrosian, translator Golnar Navidan and a number of cultural figures attended the ceremony. “Daddy-Long-Legs” ...

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Iranian children honored at Hong Kong painting competition

Iran Visa: Iranian children have been honored at the 2nd International Children’s Painting Competition in Hong Kong. Mitra Deylami won a medal from the competition, organizers announced last week. Sahar Maleklu, Rana Musapur, Ashkan Abbasi, Parsa Jamshidpur, Atefeh Ahmadi, Anita Sarvari and Donya Nasirkhani received honorable mentions. The children’s artworks, which were on the theme of “My Country’s Culture”, will go ...

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Tehran to play host to South Korean Cultural Festival

Iran Visa: Tehran will be playing host to the South Korean Cultural Festival that will be opening next week and offering a variety of different programs. In a press conference held here at the Iranian Artists Forum (IAF) on Tuesday, Ambassador of South Korea to Iran Sung Wung-yeub elaborated on the programs arranged for the event. The festival has been arranged ...

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