Mohsen Makhmalbaf is an Iranian film director, writer, film editor, and producer. He has made over 20 feature films, won 50 awards, and been a juror in more than 15 major film festivals. His award-winning films include Kandahar; his latest documentary is The Gardener and latest feature The President.
The cinema of Iran, or of Persia, refers to the film industry in Iran. In particular, Iranian art films have garnered international recognition. Iranian films are usually written and spoken in the Persian language.
Behesht-e Zahra is the largest cemetery in Iran. Located in the southern part of metropolitan Tehran, it is connected to the city by Tehran Metro Line 1.
Ehsan Yarshater was an Iranian historian and linguist who specialized in Iranology. He was the founder and director of the Center for Iranian Studies, and Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Columbia University.
Paykan Football Club is a football team based in Tehran, Iran. The team is sponsored by Iran's main automobile manufacturer Iran Khodro and is named after one of its older products; the Paykan car. Paykan F.C. is the football club of the multisport Paykan Sport Club which also includes basketball and volleyball teams.
Hamid Ahmadieh is an Iranian ophthalmologist, medical scientist, and pioneer specializing on the retina of the eye. He is also the founder of Iranian Vitreoretina Society.
Hengameh Mofid is a prominent Iranian film and theatre actress, director, dramatist, musician and University tutor.
Noushafarin (Noushin) Ansari is an Iranian librarian, educator, and manager.
Hamid Farrokhnezhad is an Iranian actor, writer, and director. He has received various accolades, including four Crystal Simorgh, two Hafez Awards, three Iran Cinema Celebration Awards, and an Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award.
Iran's National Elites Foundation is an Iranian governmental organization. The main purpose of the foundation is to recognize, organize and support Iran's elite national talents.
Ghulam Hussain is a male Muslim given name. In Persian-language use it is usually transliterated as Gholam Hossein. It may refer to:
University of Art, also known as Tehran University of Art, formally Art Academic Complex (1979-1991), is the largest art university in Iran, consisting of seven faculties and an international campus in Tehran and its suburb Karaj. It is composed of five former separate academic institutions: the Conservatory of Music, the College of National Music, the College of Decorative Arts, the College of Dramatic Arts, and Farabi University.
Hamid Naficy is an Iranian-born American filmmaker, writer, scholar, and educator. He is the Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in Communication at Northwestern University in the department of Radio/Film/Television, an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Art History, and a core member of the Middle East and North African Studies Program.
Hamid Notghi was an Iranian poet, writer, author, university professor. Notghi is a founder and father of modern public relations in Iran.
The Fighting Cock Society was a 20th-century Iranian arts association, active in the 1950s, and devoted to the promotion of modern arts in the fields of painting, theatre, music, poetry, and literature. This was the first Surrealist society in Iran.
Seyed Hadi Mohaghegh is an Iranian film director and screenwriter.
Mahsa Mohaghegh (McCauley) is an Iranian-born New Zealand computer engineer specialising in artificial intelligence and natural language processing. She is a professor of information technology and software engineering at Auckland University of Technology.
Francis Richard is a French orientalist. He is known for his research on Persian manuscripts in the Oriental collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. He is a winner of Farabi International Award.
Rasul Jafarian is an Iranian clergyman and researcher in field of Iranian history. He is currently the Professor of the Department of History at the University of Tehran, the Director of The specialized library on Islam and Iran, and the Director of the Central Library of the University of Tehran. Rasul Jafarian became a permanent member of the Academy of Sciences of Iran in June 2018 with the vote of the members of the General Assembly of the Academy of Sciences.
