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Workers readying TehranÕs Grand
Prayer Ground
(Mosalla) for
the 21st Tehran
International
Book Fair slated
for May 1-11.
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Sa’di Commemorated in UAE
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Sheikh Moslehuddin SaÕdi
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Iran’s cultural attachˇ in the UAE has said that the pristine gem, the prominent 12th century Iranian poet Sheikh Moslehuddin Sa’di refers to in his poetry is nobody but Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
Mohammad Reza Hatami made the remark on April 26 at Iranian Club in Dubai in a ceremony to commemorate the towering Iranian poet, IRNA reported.
“Sa’di believes that the more human beings get close to this gem they become immortal and the more they keep away from the gem they become mortal,“ he said.
He underlined that monotheism and humanitarian values had a lofty position in Sa’di’s works.
“If Iranian poets have remained immortal among the people, it is because they took pride in their love,“ noted the official.
Speaking at the same gathering, Silvana Salmanpour, head of Hafez Literary Society, said that the Iranians respect Sa’di because he promoted honesty and truth in his works.
“Sa’di gives advice in his poetry in such a manner to penetrate the mind, body and soul of his readers,“ she pointed out.
She recalled that many poems by Sa’di have been transformed into proverbs and people use them to express their views about everyday life.
The event was sponsored by Iranian Embassy, Hafez Literary Society and Iranian Club in Dubai.
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Master Artist Remembered
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Hossein Termehchi
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A veteran painter, Hadi Taqizadeh said that there are only a few artists like the late veteran artist Hossein Termehchi and the public must have a better understanding of luminaries of his stature.
Speaking to ISNA, he expressed concern that about 500 works by Termehchi are on the verge of ruin.
Termehchi, a distinguished artist from Khorasan Razavi province, died on April 13 of respiratory problems at the age of 82. During his youth, he became a master of weaving cashmere scarves and silk handkerchiefs as well as carpets. At the age of 27, he became acquainted with painting and eventually fell in love with painting to such an extent that he forgot about all his previous artistic endeavors.
He participated in various exhibitions during his lifetime, such as those held in Tehran’s Museum of Contemporary Arts, Mashhad’s University Jihad and Niavaran Cultural Complex.
Taqizadeh recalled that Termehchi’s works were forlorn whereas he himself was not. “Termehchi lived a tough life, but he never wanted others to know about his hardship. His poverty does not have to do with his art, but it is essentially the result of his works becoming desolate. His works must be carefully evaluated so that they can find the status they deserve in the society,“ he pointed out.
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Imam Ali (AS):
Who are you to abuse the world when it has openly declared its mortality and mortality of everything connected with it, when it has given everyone of its inhabitants to
understand that all of them are to face death?
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Rezazadeh Biopic Under Production
Director Hamid Qadakchian is currently making a documentary film on the life of the world’s four-time and twice Olympic +105kg weightlifting gold medalist Hossein Rezazadeh.
Shooting began last week and veteran filmmaker Mehdi Fakhimzadeh is acting as an advisor to the project, MNA reported.
Entitled ’Cold as Steel, Warm as Fire’, the 130-minute biopic will feature Rezazadeh from birth. Shooting will be completed by the end of the upcoming 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, in which he will be competing, he added.
Rezazadeh currently holds world records in weightlifting’s super heavyweight class in the snatch, clean, jerk and total. He became the first Iranian athlete to win two Olympic gold medals.
Letters From Americans to Ahmadinejad Published
Research and Document center of the Presidential Office has recently published a book containing letters received from US citizens following President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at Columbia University last year.
In the book, titled ’Dialogue in Iranian Style’, the Americans condemned the offensive behavior of Chancellor of Columbia University Lee Bollinger toward the president, MNA said.
In September 2007, Ahmadinejad appeared as a guest speaker at the university and Bollinger’s obnoxious behavior toward him gave rise to waves of criticism and protest both inside and outside Iran.
Prominent Historian to Be Honored
Noted Islamic historian Seyyed Jafar Shahidi will be commemorated in a ceremony on May 4.
The event will be held in cooperation with Tehran Municipality’s Cultural-Artistic Organization, Fars news agency reported.
Shahidi, the former president of Allameh Dehkhoda Lexicography Foundation, was a biographer of the infallible household of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
Shahidi’s outstanding personality is evident from his love for nurturing students and he taught literature and Islamic history for five decades.
His works include the translation of Nahj ul-Balagheh, a book of adage and maxims from Imam Ali (AS), the first Imam of the infallible household on Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), ’Uprising of Imam Hussein (AS)’ which deals with the third Imam’s struggle for justice, ’Life of Hazrat-e Fatemeh (SA)’ which is about the daughter of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
Shahidi died in Tehran in January.
Mazandaran Hosts ’Image of the Sun’
Musicians from Mazandaran province performed folklore songs on Sunday (April 27) as part of programs for the 14th edition of a weeklong festival organized by the Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults.
Traditional Iranian string instruments, namely ’Kamancheh, ’Tar’ and ’Dotar’, were featured at the event.
Veteran musician Mohammad Reza Eshaqi-Gorgi also played a traditional Iranian wind instrument ’Sorna’, which was mainly featured at galas among tribes of ancient Iran, IIDCYA’s Public Relations Office said in a fax to Iran Daily.
The entity is holding the event, titled ’Image of the Sun’, in Kermanshah, Bushehr, Khorasan Razavi and Mazandaran provinces.
The event, which runs until Thursday, seeks to introduce children to the cultures of different regions of Iran.
Handicrafts, regional costumes and booklets produced by children on folk culture of their provinces are on display at the event.
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