Iranian director Homayun Ghanizadeh plans to stage a play in Iran that he has written based on the Greek myth of Icarus and Daedalus, bearing that title. The performance will be held on Sept. 21 at the Hafez Hall, the Rudaki Foundation, the owner of the hall, announced in a press release. The play brought [...]
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Iran: “No More Petroleum Exportation to Greece”
Iran stopped exporting petroleum to Greece, announced Iran’s Minister of Petroleum Rostam Ghasemi on Tuesday, according to Shana news agency. “At this moment, Iran does not sell petroleum to Greece,” stated Ghasemi. He also commented that “Iran does not face any difficulties selling its petroleum and its petroleum products to other countries.” Tehran supplies Spain [...]
Book on The Life and Work of Theo Aggelopoulos To Be Published in Iran
“Conversations with a Painter-Director” is the name of a book on the life and work of late Greek filmmaker Theodoros Aggelopoulos, to be published in Iran. Mehran Behrouz-Faghani has been translating and working on the three volumes of the book for three years, but the sudden death of the internationally acclaimed director has put a [...]
Second Volume of Iakovos Kambanellis’ Plays Translated into Persian
Τhe second volume of Iakovos Kambanellis’s plays, including two new plays, will soon reach Iran. Iranian playwright, director and translator Reza Shirmarz saw his four plays all published one week ago in his homeland by major Ghatreh Publications and is now moving on to his next project, which will be the translation of the The Complete [...]
New Edition of ‘History of Greek Philosophy’ in Persian
After 15 years since its premier release, translators of “The History of Greek Philosophy” are preparing a new edition of the volumes in Persian. Dr Hassan Fathi, professor at the University of Tabriz and co-translator of the book, said the author William Keith Chambers Guthrie makes a survey of the philosophy of Greece from the [...]
“Zorba the Greek” Translated into Persian
“Zorba the Greek” a novel written by the Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis, first published in 1946, is now translated into Persian by Mahmoud Mosahab. It accounts the life of a young Greek man who tries to distance the world he is confined in. The novel was adapted into a successful 1964 film under the same [...]
