• A special ceremony was held at the Institute for Development of Contemporary Arts to unveil Mohsen Sharifian’s latest book – which is also on CD - on how to play Ney-Anban. In collaboration with Babak Shahraki, the Wednesday event was attended by Ney-Anban player and Lyan music group leader Mohsen Sharifian, Managing Director of Institute for Development of Contemporary Arts Mahdi Afzali, and Managing Director of the Iran's House of Music Hamidreza Nourbakhsh. Ney-Anban is a type of bagpipe which is popular in southern Iran, especially around Bushehr. The term Ney-Anban literally means bag pipe.