Quds Day (lit. ’Jerusalem Day’), officially known as International Quds Day , is an annual pro-Palestinian event held on the last Friday of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan to express support for Palestinians and oppose Israel and Zionism. It takes its name from the Arabic-language name for Jerusalem: al-Quds. The event was initiated in 1979 in Iran, shortly after the …

Mohammad Reza introduced the White Revolution, a series of economic, social, and political reforms aimed at transforming Iran into a global power and modernizing the nation by nationalizing key industries and land redistribution. The regime implemented many Iranian nationalist policies leading to the establishment of Cyrus the Great, Cyrus Cylinder, and Tomb of Cyrus the Great as popular symbols of …

Tightrope walking, also called funambulism, is the skill of walking along a thin wire or rope. It has a long tradition in various countries and is commonly associated with the circus. Other skills similar to tightrope walking include slack rope walking and slacklining.Tightwire is the skill of maintaining balance while walking along a tensioned wire between two points.

Persian New Wave refers to a movement in homeland cinema. It started in 1964 with Hajir Darioush’s second film Serpent’s Skin, which was based on D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover featuring Fakhri Khorvash and Jamshid Mashayekhi. Darioush’s two important early social documentaries But Problems Arose in 1965, dealing with the cultural alienation of the Iranian youth, and Face 75, a …

The Information Center of  Police announced that an eight-page note has been found in his home stating that he has hanged himself. Born in December 1949 in Najafabad, located in the central Iranian province of Isfahan, Pourahmad began his career as assistant director in the years prior to the Revolution. In post-revolution years he began to write and direct his …

Maryam Firouz or Maryam Farman Farmaian (1914 –  2008) was a politician. She was a daughter of Prince Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma and Batoul Khanoum. She founded the women’s section of the Tudeh (communist) party of homeland.She received a liberal education for the persian women of her time, and attended university later in life while living in exile. She was …

Kiumars Pourahmad (1949 – 2023) was a film director, screenwriter, film editor and film producer.On the morning of 5 April 2023, Kiumars Pourahmad committed suicide by hanging at his home in Bandar-e Anzali. He was 73.

The 1960s was a significant decade for persian cinema, with 25 commercial films produced annually on average throughout the early ‘60s, increasing to 65 by the end of the decade. The majority of production focused on melodrama and thrillers. From 1937 till 1947 because of the world economic conditions and then the involvement in World War Two, the motion picture …

Khorramdara Vidad’s or Ali Patrick Pahlavi’s struggle with Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s government was one of the series of conflicts and armed clashes that took place in May 1354.The origin of this armed conflict was the death of Alireza Pahlavi, the brother of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, in an air crash, but some sources, in addition to that, attribute the intellectual and …

Elizabeth Woolridge Grant (born June 21, 1985), known professionally as Lana Del Rey, is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. Her music is noted for its cinematic quality and exploration of tragic romance, glamour, and melancholia, with frequent references to contemporary pop culture and 1950s–1960s Americana. She is the recipient of various accolades, including two Brit Awards, two MTV …