routine is the worst enemy of the human being. it makes us not being able to see the beautiful things that are surrounding us. it makes us not realizing the good things that are happening in our lives. while we continue are sometimes not exciting in so-called modern life. some people come to remind us of the treasures we have and remove the dust of oblivion of the jewels that we keep in the basement. of our houses. lena is a german

girl who recently published a book called behind the closed curtains, which reminds us that it is possible to dust off our traditional home elements, remodel them, and give them a modern look and create daring, bold and lively interior design. what leno has recorded in her book is only a sam the historical background of using decorations in iranian interior design and architecture, which is rooted in combination of iranian culture, religion and art, and it has evolved as time passes by. as matter of fact, iranian houses were a place for development of spirit and physical calmness. "there is one thing in

common between us and lena, we both use this camera to record interesting events and life stories. linna and her team traveled all over iran and took their camera behind the closed curtains of iranian houses. they shot photos and recorded lifestyles, decorations and designs that are somehow modern, but have roots in our history. something that was..." not possible a couple of hundred years ago, but lena wants to make sure she produces something that can be used as a reference for future generations, something that shows where and how some iranians lived in the 21st century. i was a student of middle eastern studies politics um back in germany and um was learning some farcy, the farcy of the books and uh i wanted to learn the proper farcy of of the... streets and really get to

know the country itself, so while traveling in iran um, i understood that, okay, there is something in iran, we don't have uh that way so much, we also have it in europe, but not in that way, uh, we're just handy. crafts um so what i understood is like okay handicrafts that's something everyone can relate to because it is interior design it is decoration everyone has house you have to decorate so that's where i started i thought okay also in iran there will be people who decorate the house and decorate them in a nice way even if there are... probably not interior designers. what

makes iranian decorative elements more special is that they're timeless. you always find some shining aspects in them, something to fall in love with. i think it's really cool when you're um mixing something from old and um bringing it in into the modernity. um, so this is for example what what mort is did here with these hennor stones, which are traditionally used uh to paint the... or you placed the feet on it um the night before you getting married and then you got the hannah painted on the feet um so this was was the original use but what mortiza did he copied them um and used them as basically the feet for a coffee table it is used out of outside.

the religious context, it's decoration uh, and i think it is really beautiful and impressive piece, especially of course with all the feathers in this um pink fleshy color, contrasting to the white of... the house uh in evaying culture, mean there is um the flower as topic is really important so um what we see here is like a l um actually it's a light um which means also in persian um the the flower and here i think it's really nice the shape you find them throughout iran um these either candles or nowadays also they work with electricity um but it's a it's a soft shape so again, it's a curve like in iranian architecture, you find a lot. amid hussein is an iranian artist inspired by his roots. what is more felt at his house is

daring innovation that definitely comes from a character full of taste and art. what he does is to introduce another usage for the elements of persian architecture. آبی هم لذت می بریم و با همدیگه گپ و گفت می کنیم و خب یه تایمی رو بهترین نحو ممکنه میگذرانیم چون اینجور امکانات وجود داشته دیگه برمیگشته به خلاقیت اون افرادی که استفاده کننده یه همچین امکاناتی بودن ما الان ترجیح

میدیم که تو این دوره زمانه این شکلی از حوزهمون استفاده بکنیم تا اینکه حالا فقط یه زیبایی خاصی رو به فضای معماریمون بخشیده باشه حس می کنیم که باید یه کاربرد. center yard with pond in a middle which is surrounded by rooms with different usages during different seasons of the year. at the first glance you think this is a typical iranian traditional house, but for sure it is nothing like my grandparents house. from what i

decorating your house is definitely not a piece of cake, especially when you're looking for some very unique items that are infused with persian culture and our traditions, but remember that there's an artist inside. of every one of us, an artist that knows what is beautiful and what is not, an artist that knows how to put things together, but we don't necessarily have the creativity to make these decorative items, and for that reason people in places like here made our lives easy, you just need to come here and see all

these beautiful items, pick what you love, make sure that it goes good with your other stuff and make sure that it fits your personality. stores like this are the results of a recently started movement by some young iranians who renovate old houses and decorate them with antique-like and traditional decorative islands. i'm very inspired by all these amazing stuff and looking forward to use them to decorate my own house sometime soon. i should say this is the happiest day of my life because i have published a book on interior design in iran. uh and this is the final day, the the book presentation, um, i feel super happy, i am super exhausted too, because it has been hard work, um, i've gone through lot of ups and downs in the last eight months, but i feel proud to now say,

okay, i publish the book, this is the book, and i'm a rider, and i've done something for iran, a country i really love, and i started with the purpose to show a different eran to the world and i think i i achieved it. and iran is a mysterious land, every corner of it and every aspect of it, is a book with thousands of pages, with beautiful images and amazing stories, shahari for iran.

the palestinian resistance hamas has presented to mediators a proposal for sease fire in gaza which includes a first phase involling the release of women, children, elderly and sick israeli entity captives in exchange for releasing between 700 to 1,ous palestinian prisoners, including 100 with life sentences. or high sentences, further more, the proposal also includes hammas's agreement to date for a permanent ceasefire after the initial prisoner exchange. while the office of the israeli entity prime minister considered hamas's response to be unrealistic, some israeli entity officials hinted that this awaghed response, which they had been anticipating for weeks, could represent a sign of progress. it might allow for transitioning to more serious negotiations regarding detailed deal in a later stage in the qatari capital daha. back to... talks this week on the meety stream,

archaeology is the science of studying ancient artifacts to be able to find out what time period they are from, what materials they are made out of and other characteristics, but most importantly perhaps what can this artifact? tell us about the people who actually made this artifact, what tools did they use, what techniques and technologies were available to them that made the making of this artifact actually possible, and we need to be uh studying that artifact in a way that we don't actually damage the artifact, and this is where using uh nuclear technology, in particular asing portical accelerators can actually help us with the imaging uh of these artifacts to understand what they are made out of and understanding all the other characters. sticks that i just mentioned, so uh welcome to another episode of ewan tech, i'm your host at.