The documentary familiarizes foreign viewers with Imam Hussain’s great character showing different features of his mourning ceremony held by Shia Muslims.

The documentary familiarizes foreign viewers with Imam Hussain’s great character showing different features of his mourning ceremony held by Shia Muslims.

As the world center of Shia studies, the city of Qom is a unique city due to the Holy Shrine of Hazrat Masumeh, Jamkaran Mosque, and international students in seminary schools from 100 countries.

Abu Taher is a former Iraqi businessman on a pilgrimage to the Holy Shrine of Imam Reza. In this documentary he recounts the atrocities he and his fellow countrymen faced during Saddam Hussein's regime.

On the eve of Ramadan, people in Gonabad in eastern Iran, go with much enthusiasm to high altitudes for moon-sighting. The new moon means the start of one month of fasting in this hot and dry area.

People in Semnan in central Iran are known for their piety. They observe elaborate rituals of the holy month of Ramadan even more glorious than the Persian New Year, Nowruz.

This episode takes us to the bazaars, museums and historical sites in the holy city of Mashhad, Iran. It shows us some of the main cultural and religious rituals in this city, and a secret it shares with Qom and Shiraz.