History

Arkın emerged in the golden age of Turkish cinema, in a period known as ‘Yeşilçam’, playing in around 300 films and television series, including Babaların Babası (1975) and historic drama series Kara Murat that immortalised his name as one of the greatest actors to hail from Türkiye.

When Omar bin Laden feels depressed, he watches Unforgiven, that classic American Western film about a reformed outlaw, played by Clint Eastwood, who gives up the serenity of farming life for one last foray into his violent past. Otherwise he paints. Landscapes, mostly: desert scenes of the Nile by moonlight or the untamed American West; dead trees and cattle skulls …

The streets of Victorian London has been brought to life in colourised images captured in the 1870s.The images, colourised by Photo Colouriser and Model Maker Tom Marshall, featured in the magazine ‘Street Life’ in London in 1876 and 1877, and portray the lives of those living in the poverty circle of the capital.

Born in the city of Babol and studied music in capital. He was trained in improvisation, orchestration, arrangement, quarter tone technique, and dastgah by various well-known violinists in homeland. Mortazavi started learning the violin under the supervision of Masoud Namazian when he was three years old. In a Nowruz 1991 interview with Alireza Amirghassemi on The Tapesh Show, Mortazavi claimed …

After the Break-up of Yugoslavia, the Islamic Republic of Iran focused its main political, economic, and military orientation on the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The main reason that Iran found space in this country was because of the Islamist orientation of the “Mladi Muslimani” group (Young Muslims), especially with the last representatives of this group, such as Alija Izetbegovic. …

For Bella and Gigi Hadid, physical transformations are simply part of the job. The sisters have undergone countless since becoming top models, but the makeover that Marc Jacobs gave them on Monday for his show in New York City really takes the cake. In fact, you’d be forgiven for failing to realize that they were among the cast who presented …

Antony John Blinken (born April 16, 1962) is an American government official and diplomat serving as the 71st United States secretary of state since January 26, 2021. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under President Barack Obama.During the Clinton administration, Blinken served in the State …

Heshmatollah Tabarzadi (born March 21, 1959) is a democratic activist. Tabarzadi has been arrested several times on charges related to his political activities, most recently in December 2009. In October 2010, a court sentenced him to nine additional years in jail and 74 lashes, a sentence that was reduced to eight years on appeal.

Before that fateful decade had ended, Dariush Mehrjui’s The Cow (1969) was smuggled out of homeland and screened at the 1971 Venice Film Festival, where it won the critics’ prize (Fipresci); a screening in Berlin further consolidated its global recognition as a defining moment in the emerging Iranian cinema. Based on a short story by Gholam-hossein Saedi, The Cow told …

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theory of relativity, but he also made important contributions to the development of the theory of quantum mechanics. Relativity and quantum mechanics are together …