TEHRAN-During a ceremony on Saturday in Tehran, Raed Faridzadeh was appointed as the new head of Iran’s Cinema Organization by the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Abbas Salehi.

Faridzadeh, 46, replaced Mohammad Khazaei who held the position in the past three years, IRNA reported.

Holding a Ph.D. in philosophy and literature from the Freie Universität Berlin, Faridzadeh is a faculty member at the Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University.

In the past six years, he has been involved in cultural and cinematic activities. He has served as the head of international affairs of the Farabi Cinema Foundation, the head of the international section of the International Film Festival for Children and Youth, and the secretary of the high council of Iran’s Cinema Organization among others.

Moreover, Faridzadeh has collaborated as a juror with festivals in Iran, Armenia, Russia, and India among others.

He has also published several articles and books on philosophy, literature, art, and cinema both inside and outside the country.

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