The earliest known chemical evidence of beer in world dates to c. 3500–3100 BC from the site of Godin Tepe in the Zagros Mountains of western Iran, and there is evidence of beer-drinking over a long period in the Median Empire. Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, production, possession or distribution of any alcoholic beverages is illegal and punishable under …

Opposition groups claimed that Khomeini’s provisional constitution for the Islamic Republic did not first include the post of supreme Islamic clerical ruler. The Islamic government was defined by Khomeini in his book Hokumat-e Islami: Velayat-e faqih (Islamic Government: Governance of the Jurist) which was published while Khomeini was in exile in 1970, smuggled into Iran, and distributed to Khomeini’s supporters. …

Kimia Alizadeh Zonouzi (born 10 July 1998) is an Iranian Taekwondo athlete. Alizadeh won a bronze medal in the taekwondo 57 kg weight class at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro by defeating Swedish athlete Nikita Glasnović. This made her the first Iranian woman to win a medal at a Summer Olympics.She also won a gold medal in …

Fascinating portraits have captured the few remaining headhunters of ancient North East Indian tribe that used to behead people and display their body parts as trophies.

Hedieh Tehrani (born 25 June 1972) is an Iranian actress. She is most noted for willingness to play mysterious, stony-faced and cold-hearted women. She began her acting career with Masoud Kimiai’s Soltan (1996). For her appearance in Ghermez (Red) (1998) she received the Crystal Simorgh for Best Actress from the 17th Fajr International Film Festival.

The anniversary of the Islamic Revolution is celebrated on 22 Bahman, which is the 11th month in the Iranian calendar, equivalent to 11 February in the Gregorian calendar. It commemorates the protests that led to the downfall of the Pahlavi dynasty and the installation of the Islamic Revolutionary headed by Ayatollah Khomeini. This political celebration held on the last day …

Ghazal Shakeri is an actress and costume designer, known for Tuneless Instruments (2020), Shahrzad (2015) and Facing Mirrors (2011).

The world of cinema is losing one of its “storytellers”. On the night of Tuesday, February 9th, the family of Jean-Claude Carrière announced the death of the screenwriter at the age of 89. It is “while sleeping” that the author died in his Paris house, leaving behind one of the most productive works of 7th art, with scenarios such as …

The “Spanish” influenza pandemic of 1918–1919, which caused ≈50 million deaths worldwide, remains an ominous warning to public health. Many questions about its origins, its unusual epidemiologic features, and the basis of its pathogenicity remain unanswered. The public health implications of the pandemic therefore remain in doubt even as we now grapple with the feared emergence of a pandemic caused …

Many important filmmakers emerged from the pre-revolution era. Including Parvis Kimiavi, who made the reflexive masterpiece Mogholha (Mongols, 1973), a film which allegorizes the cultural imperialism of TV by comparing that situation to the invasion of Mongols. Bahram Baizai is the director of one of the ground-breaking films of the Iranian New wave, 1972’s Ragbar (Downpour). Sohrab Shahid-Sales is an …