Culture

The UN's cultural agency has warned that major historical sites in Ukraine are in danger of being damaged and even destroyed as Russia continues its offensive.

The first edition of the Nizami Ganjavi Award was held on Thursday evening in Tehran's Vahdat Hall.

The final chapter of Don DeLillo’s epic 1997 novel “Underworld” has proven a prescient warning of the dangers of the digitized life and culture into which we’ve communally plunged headfirst. Yet no sentiment, no open question posed in his 800-page opus rings as ominously, or remains as unsettling today, as this: “Is cyberspace a thing within the world or is it the other way around? Which contains the other, and how can you tell for sure?”

Every year, all Shias worldwide commemorate Mother’s Day on the 20th day of the Islamic lunar month of Jamadi al-Thani, which marks the birthday anniversary of Hazrat Fatemeh, the daughter of the Prophet of Islam (PBUH).

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei praised eulogists for playing a significant role in the Islamic Republic’s cultural and media war with the enemies.

Since October 2017, we have featured The Daily Devil’s Dictionary that appeared five times a week. In 2022, it will appear on a weekly basis on Wednesdays. We will shortly be announcing a new collaborative feature that extends our approach to deconstructing the language of the media.

A short film, produced and directed by Kasra Tirsahar, won the best award of the Blackboard international film festival in India.

In her dreams, Eveline Zagre believes her two sets of twins share premonitions and make demands of her -- buy a chicken, beg for...

Lyon’s Fêtes des Lumières kicked off last Wednesday with more than 30 dazzling projections and light installations coloring the city’s historic center and parks.

In the past decade, we’ve seen several high-profile organizations as well as entire sectors—from the American Civil Liberties Union to the news media—shift their focus dramatically. In fact, they’ve made themselves almost unrecognizable to members and leaders of just a generation ago. Journalist Tim Mak explores one highly publicized instance of this in his thoroughly researched and vividly written “Misfire: Inside the Downfall of the NRA.” It’s a case study of how one powerful organization allowed itself to be pulled away from its principles and dragged into the culture war.