Iran Press/ Iran News: The ceremony was attended by the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance of Iran Abbas Salehi and Head of the Organization of Islamic Culture and Communication of Iran, Abuzar Ebrahimi-Torkaman.
Also, at the end of the ceremony, the winners of the categories of photography, professional film, popular film, travelogue writing and cyberspace activists of the 6th International Arbaeen Award Festival were awarded prizes and plaques.
At the ceremony, Ebrahimi-Turkman said: "In the last few years, efforts have been made to record the Arbaeen event from the people's point of view, and artists have also been asked to keep the Arbaeen March and ceremony in minds with artistic vision and attitude."
The Executive Secretary of the Sixth International Arbaeen Award Ceremony Mehdi Saadatnejad added: "With the connection between Ashura culture and Arbaeen culture, the phenomenon of Arbaeen March has become a symbol for resistance and confrontation with the oppressors of the world."
Saadatnejad went on to say: "Artists from 21 world countries participated in this festival by sending more than 2,200 works in the sections of photography, professional film, popular film, travelogue and cyberspace activists.
Speaking at the event, the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance of Iran Abbas Salehi said that the Arbaeen ceremony should become patronage of reconciliation and a field of interaction between the Islamic Ummah.
He noted: "The Arbaeen ceremony has a special scope and its prosperity is increasing every year. The Arbaeen ceremony can be discussed from different dimensions of human existence."
Every year, millions of pilgrims, including a record number of Iranians, gather in Iraq’s holy city of Karbala to commemorate Arba’een, the 40th day after the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein, the third Shia Imam.
Among the pilgrims, which usually number 20 million from around the world every year, many arrive in Karbala after trekking about 70 kilometers northward from the holy city of Najaf in a symbolic gesture honoring Imam Hussein.
This year, restrictions of the pandemic prevented Iranian pilgrims from traveling to Karbala to participate in Arbaeen processions like in past years.
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