{"id":27450,"date":"2025-02-27T14:02:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T14:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=27450"},"modified":"2025-02-27T14:02:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T14:02:38","slug":"first-permanent-calligraphy-exhibition-opens-in-herat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2025\/02\/first-permanent-calligraphy-exhibition-opens-in-herat\/","title":{"rendered":"First permanent calligraphy exhibition opens in Herat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HERAT CITY (SW) &#8211; Authorities from the Herat Calligraphy Association have announced that, for the first time, a permanent calligraphy exhibition was opened on Wednesday, in collaboration with the Directorate of Information and Culture at the historic Qala-e-Ikhtyaruddin in the province.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Abdul Jalil Tawana, head of the Herat Calligraphy Association, stated that more than 40 calligraphic works are being displayed at this permanent exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, these works include various forms of Islamic calligraphy and handwriting.<\/p>\n<p>Tawana added that every three months, the calligraphy pieces in the exhibition will be updated and replaced with new works.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Hamidullah Ghiyasi, Director of Culture and Arts at the directorate, emphasized that the de-facto government has several programs in place to support artists.<\/p>\n<p>Qala-e-Ikhtyaruddin, one of Afghanistan\u2019s famous and historic sites, is also listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities from the Herat Calligraphy Association have announced that, for the first time, a permanent calligraphy exhibition was opened on Wednesday, in collaboration with the Directorate of Information and Culture at the historic Qala-e-Ikhtyaruddin in the province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":27451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,229,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-arts-culture","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":63,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27452,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27450\/revisions\/27452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}