Humanities
Mahasti Gangavi
Manija (Mahsati) Ganjavi, born c. 1089 in Ganja (currently part of Azerbaijan) – died sometime after 1159, was a 12th-century Persian poet. Not much is
Tahereh Ghoratolein
Fatimah Zarrin Taj Baraghani Ghazvini was born sometime between 1814 and 1817 in Muslin Shia family. She was intelligent and got educated. Early on she
IRAN and Olympic Games
Name Emam-Ali Habibi Gholamreza Takhti Mohammad Nassiri Abdollah Movahed Rasoul Khadem Hossein Tavakkoli Hossein Rezazadeh Alireza Dabir Hossein Rezazadeh Hadi Saei Hadi Saei Saeid Mohammadpour
National Sports
Historical Sport Chogan / Polo on horseback Participant of FIFA World Cup Varzesh-e bāstāni/traditional wrestling and weightlifting SOCCER Football
Restrictions on Literature & Art
commentary Iranian literature and performing arts have always been restricted and censored for morality and political aspects, due to autocratic governments. Painting and sculpture has
Notable Movies
Abbas Kiarostami CLOSE-UP (1990) TASTE OF CHERRY (1997) TEN (2002) Majid Najidi CHILDREN OF HEAVEN (1997) THE COLOR OF PARADISE (1999) Asghar Farhadi ABOUT ELLY