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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 …

Intangible Heritage of IRAN

2010 Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity   The music of the Bakhshis of Khorasan Iran (Islamic Republic of)  The Pahlevani and Zoorkhanei rituals Iran (Islamic Republic of)  The ritual dramatic art of Ta‘zīye Iran (Islamic Republic of)  Traditional skills of carpet weaving in Fars Iran (Islamic Republic of)  Traditional skills of …