We finally reached the closing ceremony...

We Are Strangers No More!

 The 36th International Film Festival for Children and Youth, with all its ups and downs, came to an end on Friday with a closing ceremony. There’s much to discuss about the 36th edition and its events, but let’s leave those conversations for another time. This piece, however, focuses on a different subject.

Figures of Isfahan- Molla Abdolbaqi Tabrizi

The Abdolbaqi inscription

After the passing of Alireza Abbasi, there were no master calligraphers who could finish the inscriptions of the Abbasi great mosque which were in ‘Sols’ script. Hence, Shah Abbas called Abdolbaqi Tabrizi, one of the apprentices of Alireza Abbasi, from Bagdad to Isfahan.

Zayandeh Rud

Tirgan feast, or the ‘Ab Pashan’ by the Zayandeh Rud

In the ancient Iranian calendar, the thirteenth day of the month Tir was named Tirgan, in honor of ‘Tishtar, the rain bringing star’.

Atiq Jameh Mosque

A golden coin for a palm of land

It is said that the middle, ponded, land in the Atiq Jameh Mosque belonged to a Jewish man who did not have any wish to sell it.