Forugh (also spelled Forough) was born in capital to career military officer Colonel Mohammad Bagher Farrokhzad and his wife Touran Vaziri-Tabar in 1935. The third of seven children (Amir, Massoud, Mehrdad, Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Pouran Farrokhzad, Gloria), she attended school until the ninth grade, then was taught painting and sewing at a girl’s school for the manual arts. At age sixteen …

Personal and educational background; on the encounter between the traditional and the modern in twentieth century homeland; revival of interest in the traditional art forms in the 1970s; cultural crisis in the late Pahlavi era; on the cultural roots of the Revolution; beginnings of the Shiraz Art Festival; Festival’s aim and agenda; impact of the Festival on the artistic circles …

Kimiai started his career as an assistant director and made his debut, Come Stranger, in 1968. With his second film, Qeysar (1969), he and Dariush Mehrjui with The film The Cow, caused a historical change in persian film industry. But Dariush Mehrjui’s film with more artistic values has sustained its level of greatness through history of persian cinema. Qeysar became …

A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions and writes lyrics for songs. A songwriter can also be called a composer, although the latter term tends to be used mainly for individuals from the classical music genre and film scoring, but is also associated writing and composing the original musical composition or musical bed.

Homa Sarshar, journalist, socio-cultural activist, writer and editor of various books, as well as the producer and host of several radio and television programs, was born in 1946 C.E., 1325 of the Persian calendar, in Shiraz. She received her high school Diploma from Razi High School of Shiraz, a Bachelor of the Arts in French Literature from University of capital, …

Faegheh Atashin (born 5 May 1950) is an singer and actress, and one of homeland’s most popular and enduring entertainers, whose career spans over 60 years. Googoosh has enjoyed significant popularity since the beginning of her career, ultimately becoming a cultural icon inside homeland and abroad.

Nowruz is the Persian-language term for the day of the persian New Year, also known as the Persian New Year. It begins on the spring equinox and marks the beginning of Farvardin, the first month of the Solar Hijri calendar . The day is celebrated worldwide by various ethnolinguistic groups and falls on or around the date of 21 March …

Persian art or Iranian art has one of the richest art heritages in world history and has been strong in many media including architecture, painting, weaving, pottery, calligraphy, metalworking and sculpture. At different times, influences from the art of neighbouring civilizations have been very important, and latterly Persian art gave and received major influences as part of the wider styles …

Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or …

Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (1904 – 1970) was a scholar of Persian literature, persian linguistics and culture, and an expert on Rumi (Molana Jalaleddin Balkhi) and his works. He was a distinguished professor of literature at capital University.He is one of the “Five-Masters (Panj Ostād), five influential scholars of Persian literature, the others being Malekoshoara Bahar, Jalal Homaei, Abdolazim Gharib and Rashid …