Cultural Counsel of The Embassy of The I.R of IRAN , Uganda -Kampala

Esteemed Cultural counselor Mr. Rezaei
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Morasa Polow (Jeweled Rice)
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The sweet festive dish of Persian tradition is often served at weddings to bring sweetness to the wedded couple. Morasa Polow is the king of all Persian dishes is also known as “Javaher Polow” which is translated to Jeweled Rice.

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Milad Tower, the Tallest Tower in Iran
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Population growth and the increase in urban settlements have compelled architects to design high-rise towers.

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Abbasi Hotel in Esfahan
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Abbasi Luxury Five-Star Hotel, the oldest hotel in the world

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The Museum of Sacrifice and Martyrdom in Ardakan

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Persian Azadi International Hotel

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Ash-e Reshteh (Noodle and Bean Soup)

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The Museum of Sacrifice and Martyrdom in Ardakan

The invasion of Iran by the Iraqi Baath army and the self-sacrifices made by the youths of Ardakan in defense of the motherland is the main subject of the Museum of Sacrifice and Martyrdom in Ardakan.

Hafezieh or Tomb of Hafez

Hafezieh or Tomb of Hafez hosts many lovers of the Persian language and culture every year

Persian Azadi International Hotel

Different Experience of a 5-Star Hotel in Tehran The purpose of Tehran Persian Azadi Hotel from the beginning has been rendering 5-star services to those guests who wish to experience such services and take benefit from the traditional Iranian guest respecting.

Ash-e Reshteh (Noodle and Bean Soup)

Ash-e-Reshteh (Iranian Noodle Soup)

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Traditional Darning

Darning is a sewing technique for repairing holes, or worn areas in fabric in such a way that the fabric returns to its original state after repair, leaving no trace of the refinishing work.

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Kurdish Klash

Kurdish Klash or Kurdish Giveh is a traditional hand-woven fabric that is very light, cool, and comfortable due to the use of natural materials such as yarn and cotton and is the best footwear for long walks and hiking.

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An Overview of the Well-known Iranian Art

Iranian art is part of its cultural and civilizational identity and it has attracted the attention of many art-loving people of the world.

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Cashmere Weaving

Yazd City is the main center of the old arts of cashmere weaving, producing very beautiful and eye-catching cashmere: an Iranian souvenir.

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Tile and its production techniques and skills.

Tile is one of the most important decorative elements of Iranian architecture. Over the centuries, techniques and skills have been developed in the creation and design of tiles.

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Koozehkonan Pottery

Koozehkonan pottery artists engage in making pottery with the skills they have learned from their earlier generations.

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The Prophets

This animation series portrays the life and efforts of a number of divine prophets such as Noah (AS), Idris (AS), Ibrahim (AS), and.... for children.

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Apoush

“Apoush” is a thought-provoking documentary that takes the audience on an interesting trip to Iran’s Alvand mountain in the Hamadan Province of Iran. The film showcases stunning aerial images of the mountain's breathtaking landscapes and provides informative details about how the effect of Alvand Mountain on the improvement of nature is gradually declining. With a significant area of 1375 square kilometers, Alvand Mountain plays a crucial role in Iran’s environment. “Apoush” highlights the importance of preserving nature and its invaluable contributions to the world environment.

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Column 14

The storyline of "Column 14" revolves around Sanaz and Yashar, a brother and sister from a privileged background, who recklessly gamble with people's lives, resulting in a devastating outcome.

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Ahmed

Ahmed is the story of the early hours of Bam earthquake in 2002 and the arrival of General Ahmad Kazemi, the commander of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Air Force, at Bam airport and the process of transporting more than 10,000 injured people by this disaster in less than 24 hours.

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Number 10

Towards the end of the war imposed by Iraq against Iran, i.e. in 1988, an Iranian POW decides to escape from the camp. He introduces himself as an underwater welding expert, which makes two other Iranian POWs get close to him to make him escape. While it was almost impossible to escape from this camp, three Iranian POWs would be executed for every person who managed to escape. However, because of his skill, “Number 10” was able to open the way for escape.

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Actor

Actor is the story of the ups and down is in the lives of two young and talented theater actors by the names of Ali and Morteza whose income from performing in surprise ceremonies is insufficient to run their lives During one surprise ceremony they meet a man who asks them to join his company In this company Ali and Morteza are supposed to discover truths through playing roles in the real world The story of the serial is about how these two young people have to involuntarily face and undergo complicated problems and get involved in complex and mysterious events

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Qazvin: The Safavid Capital; A City on the Threshold of History

The story of Qazvin is deeply intertwined with its strategic location. Situated on the southern slopes of the Alborz Mountains and along the Silk Road, the city has long been one of Iran’s most important crossroads. During the Sasanian period, Qazvin was known as a frontier fortress and later, in the early Islamic period, as one of the principal bases of the Muslim armies advancing into the Iranian plateau. Yet Qazvin reached the height of its prosperity in the 10th century AH, when Shah Tahmasp I of the Safavid dynasty moved his court and capital to Qazvin, before Isfahan was later chosen as the Safavid capital.

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Schools of Iran (madrasa)

Iran s madrasas tell the story of knowledge, but not knowledge alone. They tell us how people learned, debated, lived together, and respected one another. The architecture of the madrasa was an architecture of community. A student might be alone in his chamber, but he could still hear the discussions of others. When he stepped into the courtyard, everyone could see him. There were no walls or curtains to separate people. Perhaps, in its simplicity, the madrasa was one of the finest forms of urban space in Iran: open yet protected, public yet private, orderly yet not so rigid that it left no room for spontaneity.

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Shah Nematollah Vali Mausoleum: A Garden Embraced by the Desert, a Journey from Earth to the Heavens

This multifunctionality is one of the defining characteristics of Iranian funerary gardens. Unlike many Western mausoleums, which often function primarily as memorial structures, Iranian garden-tombs have traditionally been living and dynamic spaces for community, education, worship, and everyday life. The Mausoleum of Shah Nematollah Vali, through the integration of these functions, suggests that in Iranian culture, death is not necessarily conceived as a tragic ending separate from life, but as part of the broader fabric of everyday and spiritual existence.

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Gur-e Dokhtar

Goor-e Dokhtar is an ancient tomb located in the province of Bushehr.

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Sheikh Haidar’s Mausoleum

Sheikh Haidar’s Mausoleum is located in the Meshginshahr City of Ardabil Province of Iran.

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Zinat al Moluk House, Shiraz Where a Historic Home Becomes a Museum in the City of Poetry

Zinat al Moluk House is a place for living, characterized by its garden like entrance and landscaped forecourt instead of enclosed vestibules, its human scale and intimate spatial character rather than grandeur and formal ceremonial design and its successful and creative adaptive reuse of historic buildings.

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Religious Democracy, an answer to doubts about Iran's political system

The topic of religion and politics has always been a challenge for thinkers. Religious democracy tries to provide an answer to this challenge.

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From Iran s literary past, a narrative of the flourishing of Iranian culture in past centuries.

Iran is an ancient country with an authentic culture, a culture that has maintained its vibrancy throughout the centuries.

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Endowment Deed of Rab’-e Rashidi

Endowment Deeds of Rab’-e Rashidi is a 700-year-old document (book) consisting of an extensive list of endowments and how the income from them was spent to support scientific activities.

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A Collection of Philosophical Essays: A Path to a Better Understanding of Islam

Islam’s response to fundamental philosophical questions can provide a precise path to understanding its essence.

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Iran: A History of Art – A Study of Iranian Art and Its Evolution

iranians had the art of art since the ancient time , but the arrival of islam to iran played a special role in strengthening some art such as architecture .

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Azari Music

Azari music is an important part of the culture of the Azari-speaking people of Iran, which has evolved throughout history.

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Sorna in Lak Music

The scope of Lak music is quite unique and Sorna and Dohol are its main musical instruments.

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Radif in Iranian Music

Radif (lit. order) in Iranian music is its identity: an identity that because of its importance, has been inscribed on the UNESCO List of World’s Intangible Heritage

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Bakhtiari Music in Nowruz

Bakhtiari folk music is the manifestation of Bakhtiari culture and the one played to welcome the spring and Nowruz is full of joy and delight.

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Turkmen music

The most important part of Turkmen music is the collection of works that are sung and played by the Bakhshis.

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Kamanche

Kamanche is an Iranian instrument, similar to violin & bass

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Iranian Sculpture: From Ancient Reliefs to Heroic Statues Iranian sculpture spans a long and varied history, from the ancie

Sculpture is a branch of the visual arts in which the artist, inspired by both nature and imagination, shapes a variety of materials such as stone, wood, clay, plaster, metal, glass, wax, or paper. Through the use of hands, tools, and diverse techniques—including addition, subtraction, cutting, and reshaping—the artist creates a tangible, three-dimensional form.

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Mirza Gholamreza Esfahani: The Calligrapher Who Sought Help from Imam Ali (AS)

Mirza Gholamreza Esfahani, a renowned calligrapher of the Qajar era, is considered a distinguished figure in the history of Iranian calligraphy, having produced first-rate works in various scripts.

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Sanīʿ al-Molk; Founder of the First Painting School in Iran

“Abu al-Hasan Ghaffari, known as Sanīʿ al-Molk, is considered one of the foremost painters and miniaturists in Iranian history. His primary expertise lay in realistic portraiture, and he possessed both a creative imagination and a deft hand for depicting real-life events and scenes, leaving behind a legacy of distinguished and enduring works in Iranian visual arts.

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Mir Emad: The Master of Nasta‘liq Calligraphy in Iran

Mir Emad Hassani Seifi Qazvini was one of the most celebrated calligraphers in the history of Iranian art during the Safavid era, whose fame extended far beyond the borders of Iran. Through his exceptional mastery and artistic brilliance, he elevated the Nastaʿlīq script to such perfection that many scholars of Islamic calligraphy came to describe it as the bride of calligraphic scripts.

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Calligraphy

Iranian calligraphy is a part of Islamic calligraphy in Iran and the field of Iranian civilization

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Persian Calligraphy

Persian calligraphy or Iranian calligraphy is one of the most revered arts of Iran, which has gradually evolved and many calligraphers have contributed to different genres of this art. Nastaliq is an outstanding genre of Persian calligraphy that has come to be known as the most beautiful human calligraphy.

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Abu Sai’d Abu’l-Khayr: A Scholar Who Avoided Fanaticism

What seals Abu Sai’d Abu’l-Khayr’s name in history is that he was devoid of fanaticism. He respected everyone, regardless of their religious or cultural affiliations. He is also known as “the father of practical mysticism in Persian literature”.

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Ferdowsi

Ferdowsi is the greatest Iranian epic Persian poet who composed “Shahnameh”, comprising nearly 60,000 verses, which turned out to be the most famous collection of his poems and one of the greatest literary works of ancient Persia.

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Al-Farabi: a Mediator between Religion and Philosophy

Al-Farabi was a great and influential thinker. Many scholars believe that he was of the rank of Avicenna.

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Bayazid Bastami: Freed from Worldly Desires, In Search of Perfection

Bayazid Bastami’s disciples are known as “Teyfuriyya” or “Bastamiyya”. Teyfurriya is one of the oldest Sufi systems, which propagates that one can reach perfection through detachment from selfish and worldly desires.

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Qeysar Aminpour (Khuzestan)

Qeysar Aminpour is one of the most influential poets of the post-Iranian Revolution period. He has written poems about Iran-Iraq War, as well as poems in classic and modern style. Some believe that he shifted from poems about the war to poems about love, and others know him to be the greatest poet of Iranian Revolution.

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Unsuri Balkhi: The Peak of Eulogy

Unsuri Balkhi’s poetry is considered to be devoid of poetic tenderness, an issue that he himself had also noticed and admitted in the couplet: “Rudki’s ghazals were delicate / My ghazals are not like those of Rudki s”.

Customs of Iran

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Sienhzani (Chest-Beating)

Sinehzani (in Persian) or Chest-beating is a ceremony performed as a sign of mourning for the Shiite Imams, especially Imam Hussain ibn Ali (as) in groups or in mosques and in Husayniahs.

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The harvest ceremony of Saghay village, an ancient ritual intertwined with spiritual beliefs.

In the harvest ceremony of Saqay village, the people of the village gather together and socialize before starting the harvest the next day.

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Timcheh Mozaffarieh, Tabriz، Symbol of Muharram Mourning in Tabriz

The Mozaffarieh Bazaar in Tabriz can be considered the symbol of the city’s Muharram mourning ceremonies.

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The Polkeh Gardani ritual, a unique mourning ceremony of the people of Shishvan in commemoration of Imam Hussein

The Polkeh Gardani ritual can be considered one of the most unique ways Iranians mourn during Muharram.

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Alam Gardani in Siah Saran Village

Alam Gardani is a ceremony held in the first decade of the month of Muharram participated by the residents of the three villages of Siah Aaran, Zaviyeh, and Livarjan in Jolfa County.

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Chavush-Khani

Chavush-Khani is the practice of reciting religious poems in a clear and melodic voice in praise of the Prophet (PBUH) and his family, ahead of pilgrims.

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Kousha University of Applied Science and Technology: Bridging Skills-Based, Industrial, and Practical Education with Labor Marke

Kousha University of Applied Science and Technology: A higher education institution dedicated to enhancing students’ scientific and technical knowledge and equipping them with the skills needed to undertake practical and industrial projects.

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Karaj Sugar Applied Science and Technology Center: One of the Modern Institutions of Skills-Based and Industrial Higher Educatio

Karaj Sugar Applied Science and Technology Center: Bridging Skills-Based Education, Industry, and Entrepreneurship to Meet the Needs of the Country’s Industries

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Isfahan City Center Comprehensive Center for Applied Science and Technology: Integrating Skills-Based Education, Employment-Orie

Isfahan City Center Comprehensive Center for Applied Science and Technology: A Modern Institution for Skills-Based Higher Education, Adopting a Practical Approach Aligned with Labor Market Standards.

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Kermanshah University of Technology: Bridging Engineering Education, Research, and Technological Development in Western Iran

Kermanshah University of Technology aims to train specialized professionals, meet the needs of industries in Kermanshah Province and western Iran, and advance the development of modern technologies across various industries.

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Qom University of Technology: Bridging Engineering Education, Research, and Industrial Development in the Province

Qom University of Technology: A University Focused on Engineering and Technology Education, Fostering an Innovative Environment for Training Professional Engineers

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Shahid Ashrafi Esfahani Non-Profit University: Connecting Education, Research, and the Development of Academic Skills

Shahid Ashrafi Esfahani Non-Profit University: Providing Quality Education, Advancing Academic and Research Activities, Enhancing Society’s Cultural Standards, and Educating Competent Graduates

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