Iran to Celebrate World Tourism Day in Five Provinces

Aug. 12, 2021 Voltaire (French writer) One merit of poetry few persons will deny: It says more and in fewer words than prose. 8Arts & Culture Online photo exhibition on Muharram License Holder: Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) Managing Director: Touraj Shiralilou Editor-in-Chief: Kambakhsh Khalaji Editorial Dept. Tel: +98 21 88755761-2 to be held on August 14 Editorial Dept. Fax: +98 21 88761869 Subscription Dept. Tel: +98 21 88748800 ICPI Publisher: +98 21 88548892, 5 Arts & Culture Desk Advertising Dept. Tel & Email: +98 21 88500617 - [email protected] Website: www.irandaily.ir An online exhibition ti- newspaper.irandaily.ir tled, ‘Hazrat-e Hozur,’ fea- Email: [email protected] Iran Cultural & Press Institute turing photos on mourning Printing House: ceremonies of Muharram, Address: Iran Cultural & Press Institute, #208 Khorramshahr Avenue Tehran-Iran will be held on the website Iran Daily has no responsibility whatsoever for the advertisements and promotional material printed in the newspaper. of the Iranian Academy of Arts. The exhibition will show 47 artworks of Ira- pana.ir nian photographer Mehdi Iran to celebrate World Tourism Day Bitarafan on the subjects of Muharram and its rituals. The exhibition will be available for photo lovers as of August 14, ISNA reported. The lunar month marks with the martyrdom anniversary of Imam in five provinces Hussein (PBUH) and his companions, 14 centuries ago, who were mar- tyred in the modern-day Iraqi city of Karbala by the forces of the second Arts & Culture Desk tion of Ardebil, Kermanshah and Kurd- Umayyid caliph, Yazid, on the 10th day of Muharram, which is called estan provinces is in the framework of the Ashura. he celebration of World Tourism policy of defining a new tourism route in Day (September 27) will be held the northwest of the country,” adding that Tfrom September 28 to October 3, registration of the Cultural Landscape of in five Iranian provinces of Ardebil, Kurd- Uramanat in UNESCO’s World Heritage estan, Kermanshah, Kerman and Fars, as List will significantly influence tourism in Venice Film Festival to screen representatives of the new and traditional this region. tourism routes of the country, Iran’s Dep- “On the other hand, the provinces of Ennio Morricone documentary ‘Ennio’ uty Tourism Minister Vali Teymouri said. Kerman and Fars are located along the tra- According to IRNA, Ardebil Province on ditional and historical tourism route of the The 2021 Venice Film Festival, slated to be held September 1-11, will September 28, Kurdestan and Kermanshah country and they need to receive attention pay tribute to the late, great Ennio Morricone, with a screening of ‘En- provinces jointly in Cultural Landscape of along with the new routes.” nio,’ Giuseppe Tornatore’s new documentary on the life and music of Uramanat on September 28, Kerman Prov- Referring to the slogan of World Tour- Italy’s greatest film composer. ince on October 2 and Fars Province on Oc- ism Day in 2021, Teymouri said, “This ‘Ennio’ will get a special, out-of-competition gala screening at the tober 3, will host the most important tour- year, the World Tourism Organization has 78th Venice Film Festival. The documentary takes the form of a long ism events in the country, he added. chosen the slogan of ‘Tourism for Inclusive interview between Morricone and Tornatore, with comments from art- Explaining the policies and programs Growth,’ and selection of the five Iranian ists and admirers, including director collaborators Quentin Tarantino, for World Tourism Day, Teymouri said, provinces will target this objective.” Bernardo Bertolucci, Barry Levinson, Roland Joffé and Oliver Stone, “The Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tour- unwto.org He concluded that in addition to national as well as musicians Bruce Springsteen and fellow film composer and ism and Handicrafts has been recently programs in the five provinces, separate Oscar winner Hans Zimmer, The Hollywood Reporter wrote. trying to use significant events to intro- attention of local authorities and people to lar province or city.” programs and ceremonies will be held in ‘Ennio’ also delves into duce lesser known areas and attract the highlight the tourism industry in a particu- He explained, “In this regard, the selec- other Iranian provinces. seldom-seen aspects of Morricone, including his passion for chess, which could reveal previously- Minister unveils first collage Iran’s Traditional and Ritual unseen connections to his music. The film also tracks the real-world sources of of copper engraving, turquoise inlaying many of his most iconic Theater Festival postponed musical themes, such as the coyote howl that in- Arts & Culture Desk GETTY IMAGES spired the theme to ‘The Ennio Morricone Good, The Bad and the The 20th Traditional and Rit- Ugly’ (1966), or the rhythmic banging by striking workers in Rome ual Theater Festival of Iran that lead Morricone to compose the main theme of ‘According to was postponed due to the fifth Pereira’ (1995). wave of the COVID-19 pan- “I worked with Ennio Morricone for thirty years, I made almost all demic, said the secretary of my films with him, not to mention the documentaries, commercials, the festival. and projects that we tried unsuccessfully to put together,” said Torna- Davoud Fat’hali-Beygi tore, whose features have included the Oscar winner ‘Cinema Paradiso’ made the statement during a (1988), ‘The Legend of 1900’ (1998), and ‘The Best Offer’ (2013), all Iranian Minister of Heritage, Culture, Tourism and Handicrafts Ali-Asghar Mounesan (L) unveils meeting held for the neces- of which featured the music of Morricone. the first collage of copper engraving and turquoise inlaying at Tehran’s Entezami Art Gallery sity of postponing the festival, With ‘Ennio,’ Tornatore says, his “dream has come true. I wanted on August 10, 2021. to make ‘Ennio’ to tell Morricone’s story to the audiences around the IRNA reported. world who love his music. …I structured ‘Ennio’ as an audio-visual Arts & Culture Desk The exhibition was held at Tehran’s En- The festival was scheduled novel that relied on clips from films for which he composed the mu- tezami Art Gallery from August 6 to 11. to be held on October 18. However, the spread of the sic, repertory images and concerts, to introduce the spectator to the Iranian Minister of Heritage, Culture, The exhibition showcased the hand- ILNA formidable existential and artistic career of one of the most beloved Tourism and Handicrafts Ali-Asghar made artworks by Mahboobeh Sadat virus has postponed the date musicians of the 20th century”. Mounesan unveiled the first collage of Hossein-zadeh and Mohammad-Mehdi to November 30. ater, the Iranian Association of Per- In his long career, Morricone received six Oscar nominations, final- copper engraving and turquoise inlaying. Esmaeili-Meybodi from the central prov- It is planned that the festival be held forming Arts and the Performing Arts ly winning the Academy Award for best original score for his music to The artwork which is the first of its kind ince of Yazd. online, but if the virus situation gets Department at the Ministry of Culture Tarantino’s ‘The Hateful Eight’ in 2016, nine years after he received an produced in Iran was unveiled on the side- The turquoise used is turquoise ore better, parts of the event could be held and Islamic Guidance, the festival honorary Oscar for his life’s work. Morricone died last year, aged 91. lines of the exhibition titled, ‘Mahboob,’ with a paisley design. The motif used in in person, Fat’hali-Beygi said. promotes research in reviewing and featuring copper engraving and turquoise the middle of the artwork is the tile of the Organized under the auspices of the identifying traditional origins of the inlaying, IRNA wrote. Jaame Mosque of Yazd. Center for Ritual and Traditional The- performing arts. Pat, daughter of Alfred Hitchcock who appeared in his films, MUHARRAM MOURNING CEREMONIES IN PHOTOS dies at 93 Pat Hitchcock, director Alfred Hitchcock’s only child, died at 93. Her daughter, Katie O’Connell-Fiala, confirmed that she died in Thousand Oaks, California. She appeared in her father’s films including ‘Strangers on a Train,’ ‘Psy- cho’ and ‘Stage Fright.’ In ‘Psycho,’ Hitchcock played Janet Leigh’s of- fice mate Caroline, who offers to share her tranquilizers. In ‘Strangers on a Train,’ she was Barbara Morton, the sister of Ruth Roman’s character Anne Morton, according to Variety. She also appeared in movies including ‘The Case of Thomas Pyke’ and TV series such as ‘Suspense,’ ‘Suspicion,’ ‘My Little Margie,’ ‘Matinee Theatre’ and ‘The Life of Riley’ as well as in 10 episodes of ‘Alfred Hitchcock Pres- ents.’ She also had a bit part in ‘The Ten Commandments.’ During the 1970s, she appeared in TV movies ‘Skateboard,’ ‘Six Charac- ters in Search of an Author’ and ‘Ladies of the Corridor.’ She was born Patricia Hitchcock on July 7, 1928 to Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville. The Hitchcocks moved to Los Angeles in 1939, and she decided to act as a child. She began acting on the stage, appearing in the TASNIM NEWS AGENCY IRNA HAWZAH NEWS AGENCY Broadway play ‘Violet.’ Muslims in Iran’s capital Tehran hold mourning ceremonies The picture shows a child in Iran’s northwestern province Shia Muslims hold a ceremony at the holy shrine of Hazrat Although she mostly retired from acting to raise her children, Pat Hitch- on the second night of the lunar month of Muharram of Zanjan on August 10, 2021 among people attending Masumeh (PBUH) in Iran’s central province of Qom, on cock contributed to Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine and co-wrote a bi- coinciding with August 10, 2021 to mark the martyrdom a mourning ceremony on the martyrdom anniversary August 10, 2021, to mourn the martyrdom of Imam Hussein anniversary of Imam Hussein (PBUH), the third Imam of of Imam Hussein (PBUH), the third Imam of Shia (PBUH), a grandson of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), who ography of her mother, ‘Alma Hitchcock: The Woman Behind the Man,’ with Shias.

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