2nd National Festival of Nasser Khosrow Travel writing

The National Nasser Khosraw Travel Writing Contest aims to persuade the travelers to log their travels by providing a public forum. Therefore, we, the organizers of contest, including Zoraq Website, (the first comprehensive Iranian tourism portal providing online hotel reservation service all around the world), Tehran Tourist Guides Association, Tehran Tourist House, and Tatilat-e- Now …

A man from BOOKAN

MARYAM JAVAHER NIA: The Kurdish lifestyle has been portrayed through the statues a Kurdish sculptor carves. “Osman Rahmanzadeh”, an illiterate mason and self-taught sculptor, reveals the lifestyle of not only the Kurdish but any other tribes, clans, and so on, who live in Iran. Before carving his unique and petite living statues, he reviews the …

Museums and Memory

The worldwide community of museums will celebrate International Museum Day around May 18, 2011. Museum and Memory is the theme of International Museum Day 2011. Museums store memory and tell stories. They have numerous objects in their collections that are basic to the memory of the communities we live in. These objects are the expressions …