• A special event was organized by the Culture Ministry to honor Master Calligrapher Gholam Hossein Amirkhani. Deputy Culture Minister Seyyed Mohammad Mojtaba Hosseini as well as top calligraphers and officials from the Iranian Association of Calligraphy and the Calligraphy Museum attended the Sunday ceremony.

  • A special ceremony was held at the Vahdat Hall to honor the Tehran Symphony Orchestra and its members during the Sacred Defense Era (1980-1987 Iran-Iraq War). Culture Minister Seyyed Abbas Salehi and Deputy Culture Minister for Artistic Affairs Seyyed Mohammad Mojtaba Hosseini attended the event on Saturday.

  • The third edition of the Ashura Costumes Exhibition is underway at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall. Deputy Culture Minister Seyyed Mohammad Mojtaba Hosseini attended the inauguration ceremony on Saturday. Each year, Muslims across the globe mark martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein (AS) on Ashura Day which falls in the Islamic lunar month of Muharram.

  • The Hani Parseh Exhibition Center hosted a special event on Monday, 16 July, to honor Iranian artists born in July. The program was attended by Vice President Mohammad Bagher Nobakht, Culture Minister Seyyed Abbas Salehi, Deputy Culture Minister for Artistic Affairs Seyyed Mohammad Mojtaba Hosseini, Chairman of Tehran City Council Mohsen Hashemi Rafsanjani, Head of Majlis Cultural Commossion Ahmad Mazani, Director of Institute for Development of Contemporary Art Mahdi Afzali, and Director of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art Ali Mohammad Zare’.

  • TEHRAN.(HONARONLINE) – The Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Abbas Salehi, and Japanese Ambassador Hiroyasu Kobayashi meet in Tehran, the ministry announced in a press release published on Sunday.

  • Deputy Culture Minister Seyyed mohammad Mojtaba Hosseini and a host of Iranian artists and international guests attended the first conference in Tehran on Thursday to concentrate on Omar Khayyam’s life and work, as a scientist, scholar and poet, the genre of the Rubai and the musical settings of his Rubaiyat. The Rubaiyat of the eleventh-century Persian writer, Omar Khayyam, has become the most widely known poem in the world. It has been republished and translated into some eighty different languages.

  • Deputy Culture Minister Seyyed Mohammad Mojtaba Hosseini was among the first to pay a visit to an exhibition of artworks and book illustrations by contemporary Czech illustrators at the Iranian Artists Forum. “From the Heart of Europe” features 23 illustrations created via various techniques.