Place and date of birth: Tehran, 1949
Permanent member of the Academy of Arts of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Education:
- Mathematics graduate 1968;
Graduated in Interior Architecture, Faculty of Decorative Arts, Ministry of Culture and Arts, 1972.
Scientific and artistic records:
- Drawing and painting with black pen, colored pencil, oil paint, gouache since 1959, Professors: the late Sadri, the late Master Isa Saed and Taghavi;
- Calligraphy, professors: Saraf and Zarrin Khat;
- Literature and dramatic literature , Professor Ali Modarresi;
- Photography, filming and graphics1966;
- Activity in the Central Youth Palace Theater, play workshop;
- Training in the fields of clothing design, fabric role, photography, cinema directing, design for pottery;
- Painting secretary and advertising designer, graphic designer and architect;
- Author in the press after the revolution,
- Compilation of textbooks of the Ministry of Education;
- Designer of filmmaking education and training method (Tel Film),
- Member of the faculty and head of the culture and art department of the Foundation of the History of the Islamic Revolution of Iran 1983 to 1993;
- Faculty member of Ferdows Garden Filmmaking Training Center and teacher of aesthetics, 1982 to 1988;
- Lecturer in Aesthetics, Dramatic School, 1985.
Records:
- Media Advisor to the President, 2006-2010;
- Permanent member of the Academy of Arts since 2009;
- Artistic advisor to the Ministry of Education in the Revolutionary Council and the Provisional Government in 1979;
- Head of Art Schools all over the country, Institute of Art Instructors of the Ministry of Education;
-Founder of Bagh Ferdows Film Training Center 1981;
- Deputy Minister of Culture and Arts, Ministry of Science, Higher Education and Culture and Arts, 1980;
- Deputy Minister of Science in the field of culture and art in 1981;
- First Deputy Minister of Cinema of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, February 1981;
- Founder of three Fajr Film, Theater and Music Festivals;
- Secretary of the jury of three Fajr Film Festivals, 1982 Fajr Theater two seasons, and Fajr Music 9 seasons;
- Director of the Office of Arts and Prototyping, Deputy of Research;
- Senior Advisor to the Radio and Television Organization, 1997-2002;
- Senior Advisor to the Voice of the Radio and Television Organization 2002-2005;
- Senior Advisor, Faculty of Radio and Television of Iran, 2005-2010;
- Member of the Supervisory Council of the Radio and Television Organization, 2005-2011
-First Representative of the President)2010;
- Deputy of Radio and Television of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting Organization, March 1980 to May 1981;
- Director of the School of Art and Literature of the Radio and Television Organization 1984 to 1987;
- Head of the Music Center of the Radio and Television Organization 1986 to 1989;
- Member of the Planning and Programming Council of the Radio and Television Organization from 1984 to 1991;
- Member of the Policy Council of the Radio and Television of Iran from 1989 to 1995;
- Consultant for making and producing films of the land of lovers, we are standing, Doleh To prison, Pishtazan Fatah, the bride of Halabja;
- Directing the movie "I will never meet boredom";
- Member of the Teacher and Student Selection Council of the Supreme Headquarters of the Cultural Revolution 1980;
- Full member of the board of directors of the Museum of Science and Technology in 2007.
Articles and books:
- The future of Iranian cinema (special issue of the first Fajr festival);
- Art Quarterly of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance (No. 1);
- Quarterly of Yad ,Modares book "Famous Unknown Modares";
- American cinema, "cinema of arrogance and humiliation" (Ettelaat newspaper);
- How to evaluate a film (Ettelaat newspaper);
- Do's and don'ts of music (Jomhuri Eslami newspaper);
- "Letters to my child about freedom" (Jomhuri Eslami newspaper);
- "A lot of fuss, for nothing" (Yad Quarterly);
- "Archeology" (Yad Quarterly);
- "The Secret of Western Civilization" (Yad Quarterly);
- Author of the book "The Cursed