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13th Hiroshima-Iran Love & Peace Film Festival launched in Japan
TEHRAN – The 13th edition of the Hiroshima-Iran Love & Peace Film Festival was launched in Hiroshima, Japan, on Saturday.
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What’s in Tehran art galleries
Ech Gallery is playing host to an exhibition of paintings by Masih Ghasemian. The exhibit named “The Silent Frame” runs until August 14 at the gallery that can be found at 10 Mirza Taraj opposite Dowlat St., Shariati Ave.
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By Kurosh Alyani
Entertainment against alternatives
“Steal”, the Epstein Class, and the Caricaturing of Resistance Leaders
TEHRAN- On the surface, “Steal” is a crime-thriller miniseries about the “heist of the century” and financial corruption—a seemingly anti-capitalist text alert to inequality. Yet the ultimate layer of its message shores up the same war-driven capitalist order: it hides the Epstein class behind a sacrificial body and absolves that class by killing him; normalizes the war broker; caricatures the resistance’s intellectuals and defense leaders in the figure of Darren Yoshida; and leaves individual theft as the only rational horizon.
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13th Hiroshima-Iran Love & Peace Film Festival launched in Japan
TEHRAN – The 13th edition of the Hiroshima-Iran Love & Peace Film Festival was launched in Hiroshima, Japan, on Saturday.
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What’s in Tehran art galleries
Ech Gallery is playing host to an exhibition of paintings by Masih Ghasemian. The exhibit named “The Silent Frame” runs until August 14 at the gallery that can be found at 10 Mirza Taraj opposite Dowlat St., Shariati Ave.
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“The Cherry Tree” puppet play brings lessons of Ashura to young audiences
TEHRAN- The puppet-live performance "The Cherry Tree", directed by Sharareh Tayyar, is currently on stage at the Mehr Theater of Tehran’s Art Bureau.
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9th Iranian Film Festival in Tokyo honors martyred children of Minab
TEHRAN – The 9th Iranian Film Festival in Tokyo was launched on Friday at the Libra Hall of the Minato City Gender Equality Center in Tokyo, Japan.
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By Kurosh Alyani
Entertainment against alternatives
“Steal”, the Epstein Class, and the Caricaturing of Resistance Leaders
TEHRAN- On the surface, “Steal” is a crime-thriller miniseries about the “heist of the century” and financial corruption—a seemingly anti-capitalist text alert to inequality. Yet the ultimate layer of its message shores up the same war-driven capitalist order: it hides the Epstein class behind a sacrificial body and absolves that class by killing him; normalizes the war broker; caricatures the resistance’s intellectuals and defense leaders in the figure of Darren Yoshida; and leaves individual theft as the only rational horizon.
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Antony Loewenstein’s “The Palestine Laboratory” published in Persian
TEHRAN – The Persian translation of the book “The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World,” written by Antony Loewenstein, has been released in bookstores across the country.
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Iranian animation “Legend of Sepehr” to be released in Russian cinemas
TEHRAN – The Iranian animated feature film “Legend of Sepehr,” directed by Emad Rahmani and Mehrdad Mehrabi, is set for a wide theatrical release in Russia following its run in Iran.
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Ancient Persian-translated Quran unveiled at Iran National Library
TEHRAN- A high-quality facsimile edition of the "Zaferani Quran", recognized by scholars as the oldest known complete and dated manuscript of the Holy Quran accompanied by a Persian translation, was unveiled during a ceremony at the National Library and Archives of Iran on Tuesday.
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Avaye Chirok releases audiobook adaptation of “The Unfinished Note”
TEHRAN- The audiobook version of “The Unfinished Note”, written by Vahid Akbari, has been produced and released by the Avaye Chirok, a major institute that produces audiobooks in Iran.
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Tehran theater to host reading performance of “The Glass Menagerie”
TEHRAN- Sobhan Theater Hall in Tehran will be playing host to a reading performance of American playwright Tennessee Williams’ memory play “The Glass Menagerie” on Wednesday.
