Culture and Art
A Reflection on the Concept of the Art of the Islamic Revolution and its Role in the Development of Iranian Art
*Fatemeh Aghaienejad, Sayyed Jalal Mousavi, Fatemeh Khazaminejad The Meaning of the Art of the Islamic Revolution: The fall of the Pahlavi regime and the rise of the Islamic Revolution led to a situation in which many artists created original...
Global Messages of Qeysar Aminpour’s Poems
Biography of Qeysar Aminpour and An Introduction to His Poems Qeysar Aminpour was born on April 23, 1959 in Gotvand, a village near Dezful. He completed his primary and secondary educations in Gotvand and Dezful respectively. Although in 1979,...
The Reflection of the Islamic Revolution on Contemporary Iranian Architecture (Years 1979-1989)
Ideology from the Perspective of the Supreme Leader While always having a positive and favourable attitude towards ideology, Ayatollah Khamenei emphasizes both its epistemological and sociological meanings. In his definition of ideology, he explains...
Facing the Walls (Stories of the Revolution for Children and Youths)
The prison is very crowded on Thursdays and Fridays. I don’t know how people think of visiting the prison with their picnic baskets and hookah pipes and come to Qasr Park. They peek from one cell to the other while holding their toddlers’...
Tahereh Saffarzadeh
Tahereh Saffarzadeh was born in Sirjan, Kerman Province, Iran in 1936. She was a researcher, translator, university professor, and finally an exceptionally innovative and modernist poet in contemporary Iranian poetry. The vicissitudes of her academic...
Call Your Brother (Stories of the Revolution for Children and Youths 5)
In the Name of God, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful Author’s Note “The Stories of the Revolution” is a total of about twenty in number, and children play the main role in all of them. These stories were sent to me or...
The Airmen will be Executed at Dawn (Stories of the Revolution for Children and Youths 4)
In the Name of God, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful Author’s Note “The Stories of the Revolution” is a total of about twenty in number, and children play the main role in all of them. These stories were sent to me or...
The Air Force(Stories of the Revolution for Children and Youths 3)
In the Name of God, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful Author’s Note “The Stories of the Revolution” is a total of about twenty in number, and children play the main role in all of them. These stories were sent to me or...
He is Missed (Stories of the Revolution for Children and Youths 2)
In the Name of God, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful Author’s Note “The Stories of the Revolution” is a total of about twenty in number, and children play the main role in all of them. These stories were sent to me or...
Why has Father Stayed Home? (Stories of the Revolution for Children and Youths 1)
Stories of the Revolution for Children and Youths In the Name of God, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful Author’s Note “The Stories of the Revolution” is a total of about twenty in number, and children play the...
Sayyed Hasan Hoseyni
Today the pure word of ‘Hezbollah’ Seems to be a deep insult In the ‘enlightened’ lexicon of these people! But I remember well The day when the ‘enlightened’ Got drunk In the cafes of the turbulent...
Qeysar Aminpour
Dezful (Khuzestan province, Iran) is home to many poets and scholars; as if the spirit of resistance in this city has been injected into its’ youth’s spirit of perseverance. It has streamed the hot years of the south into the “Sudden...
Salman Harati
Salman Harati was born to a religious family in the village of Marzdasht, Tonekabon (Mazandaran province, northern Iran) in 1959. He completed his elementary school years in the village. Salman became acquainted with and fond of reading and writing in...
Nights of Repentance
In 1970 and 1971, I went to medical school in Mashhad. I had rented a room in a house. One night, when I had stayed up late to study for an exam, I heard a strange sound coming from the yard; the sound of someone lamenting and pleading, which was...
Iraj Eskandari (A Decade with the Painters of the Islamic Revolution 1979-1989 Part,8)
Born: Kashmar, 1956 Education: Graduate of the College of Decorative Arts, Tehran Artistic activities: Three solo art exhibitions, participation in a number of group exhibitions. “Man’s innate nature possesses five tendencies: the...
Naser Palangouei (A Decade with the Painters of the Islamic Revolution 1979-1989 Part,7)
Born: Hamadan, 1957 Education: BA in painting Artistic activities: Three solo art exhibitions abroad, participation in a number of group exhibitions in Iran. “In its true sense, painting is the portrayal of the artist’s spiritual...
Kazem Chalipa (A Decade with the Painters of the Islamic Revolution 1979-1989 Part,6)
Born: Tehran, 1957 Education: Graduate of the College of Fine Arts, University of Tehran Artistic activities: Participation in a number of group exhibitions. “From the point of view of form, all the arts are divided into two...
Hoseyn Khosrojerdi (A Decade with the Painters of the Islamic Revolution 1979-1989 Part,5)
Born: Tehran, 1957 Education: Graduate of the College of Fine Arts, University of Tehran Artistic activities: One solo art exhibition, participation in a number of group exhibitions in Iran and abroad. “Tolstoy has said, ‘Whether the...
Habibollah Sadeqi (A Decade with the Painters of the Islamic Revolution 1979-1989 Part,4)
Born: Tehran, 1957 Education: Graduate of the College of Fine Arts, University of Tehran Artistic activities: One solo art exhibition, participation in a number of group exhibitions. “An art which adheres to the values of our faith is a...
Mostafa Naderlu (A Decade with the Painters of the Islamic Revolution 1979-1989 Part,3)
Born: 1959, Tehran Education: Graduate of the College of Decorative Arts, University of Tehran Artistic activities: Participation in three group exhibitions “Comprehension of the truths and beauties of the world, and representing them in...