Majid Majidi, Iran’s first foreign-language Oscar nominated helmer (for the 1997 “The Children Of Heaven”) delivers his country’s most expensive film to date, ...

Majid Majidi, the first Iranian helmer nominated for the foreign-language film Oscar (for 1997's “The Children of Heaven”), delivers his country’s most expensive film to date with the ...

Since the 1979 Iranian revolution, the local film industry has not been known for trying to make blockbusters. But there is one exception, “Muhammad: The Messenger of God,” an epic directed by ...

The most expensive film ever produced in Iran, “Muhammad: The Messenger of God,” premiered Thursday to sold-out theaters after being delayed a day due to audio issues, Agence France Press reports.

A mosque in Kandahar houses a relic of the Prophet Muhammad: a cloak preserved, splendid and unpilled, almost 1,400 years after its owner’s death. The mosque’s caretaker claims that the cloak ...