Hojat al-Islam Hosseini Aref appointed as Advisor to Deputy for Scientific Cultural Affairs of AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly

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Saturday, 29 January 2022

The Deputy for Scientific and Cultural Affairs of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly appointed Hojat al-Islam Hosseini Aref as his Advisor.

Hojat al-Islam Dr. Mahdi Farmanian, Deputy for Scientific and Cultural Affairs of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly, appointed Hojat al-Islam Sayed Alireza Hosseini Aref as his advisor.

In an introductory ceremony held on Saturday morning, January 29, 2022, in the assembly hall of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly in Qom, Ayatollah Reza Ramazani, Secretary-General of the Assembly, presented Hojat al-Islam Hosseini Aref his letter of appointment.

The letter of appointment of Mr. Hosseini Aref by the Deputy for Scientific and Cultural Affairs of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly is as follows:

In His Almighty Name

Hojat al-Islam Sayed Alireza Hosseini Aref

Considering your experiences and competencies in the scientific and cultural fields, especially in media and cyberspace, hereby, I appoint you as the advisor to the Deputy for the Scientific and Cultural Affairs of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly.

We hope that your brilliant record in media and cyberspace will enhance the activities of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly, and that your expert opinions will lead to more results to achieve the goals set for this office.

It is expected that you have maximum effort and synergy to achieve the goals and missions of the Assembly, by consulting, thinking and also continuous communication with experts and experienced people inside and outside the country, carefully studying missions in various fields of culture, scientific and propagation, and continuous interaction with similar organizations, and providing expert opinions and creative solutions.

I ask God for your health, dignity, and success.

Mahdi Farmanian

Deputy for Scientific and Cultural Affairs of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly

January 29, 2022

Some scientific, cultural, and managerial records of Mr. Sayed Alireza Hosseini Aref:

- Director of the Scientific Cooperation Office of the Secretariat of the Assembly of Leadership Experts,

- Founder and editor of various magazines and publications such as “Al-Nafza” in Arabic, the “Next Generation” for Baqir al-Olum University, “The Treasury of the Assembly” for the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly, “The Politics Letter” for the Scientific Associations of the Qom seminary and so on,

- Secretary of the first biennial Best Research of the Islamic Government,

- Launching and managing AhlulBayt (a.s.) News Agency - ABNA since 2006,

- Director General of Information Technology and Information of the World Assembly of Ahl al-Bayt (as) (from 2008 to 2022),

- Establishment and management of “Comprehensive Website of Islamic Art” (since 2012),

- Director of the Office of Scientific and Cultural Relations of the Political Studies Association of Qom Seminary,

- Secretary of the International Festival “Grand Prize of the Great Prophet (p.b.u.h)”,

- Director of the Department of Applied Studies of the Office for Cultural Affairs of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly (from 2013 to 2016),

- Launching and managing the virtual encyclopedia “Wiki Shia” (since establishment until 2014),

- Director of the Language Training Center of seminaries (since 2015),

- President of the Scientific Association of Shiite Sects of the University of Religions and Denominations (since 1397),

- Managing Director of the Cultural Artistic Institute of the Abna Al-Rasul (p.b.u.h),

- Teaching in the seminary and university,

- Foreign-language missionary at the District of the Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist Representation in the affairs of Hajj and pilgrimage,

- Expert gust of in scientific and cultural programs of “Quran” and “Maaref” Radios,

- Scientific and content supervision on dozens of software related to Islamic science and education,

- Research and compilation of numerous books and articles in Persian and Arabic such as “Theory of Moral Society”, “Fourteen Correct Mourning”, “Islamic Thoughts and the Fall of the Ottoman Empire”, “Imam Sajjad (a.s.), the One Who Revived Islam”, “Islamic Awakening”, “Arab Spring”, “Alawites of Turkey”, “Discussions about the Holy Quran”, “Hewar Al-Hedharat; Sera’ fi Sahatayn”, etc.,

- Writing in scientific journals and cultural publications (such as “University of the Revolution”, “Islamic Government”, “Payam Hozeh”, “Al-Nafeza”, “Iran Javan”, “Pegah” and “Ofogh Hozeh”), widely circulated newspapers (such as “Jomhuri Eslami”, “Abrar” and “19 Dey”) and websites (such as “ABNA”, “Hozeh News”, “Baztab” and “Mobarezin”) since 1994.

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