Chehre-Nama

 The pictorial newspaper, Chehre-Nama was founded in Egypt, Alexandria under the management of Abdol Mohammad Esfahani entitled Moaddab-os-Saltaneh and its first issue was published with lytography in 16 pages and in “Vaziri” size in the last day of…. Its annual subscription was as follows: Alexandria, Qatar and Egypt, 3 Rials, Iran’s territorials 4 Tomans, the Ottoman territorials 4 Majidi, Britain and India 10 Rupees, Caucasia of Turkestan 8 Menat, Europe and China 20 Francs.
The price of advertisement was 2 Francs per line and for its reprinting, one should refer to office and the price would be taken in advance and if person did not want its reprinting, the original one would be returned to him under the title of Chehre-Nama, the phrase of "The illustrated, Free and without titles" has come and its publication's interval has been introduced as "Temporary, 3 times monthly and afterwards weekly".
The first year of Chehre-Nama ended with the publication of issue No. 24 dated…. And the first issue of the second year which was No. 25 was published in …. In the second year the characteristics of the newspaper such as printing and the size of pages and the way of printing were like the first year. The second issue of the second year dated . Also published in Alexandria but afterward, the other issues of it, e.g. the third issue of the second year and thereafter were published in Qairo.
The contents of Chehre-Nama after the table of contents and the editorial were the news of Iran and the world and different essays.
At the beginning of brilliant appearance of Chehre-Nama the outbreak of cholera in Iran led to large harms to the newspaper.
The arrest of Chehre-Nama in the frontiers of Iran and prevention of its enterance to Iran by the order of Ein-ol-Dowleh in the middle ….. largely damaged the newspaper and finally by the mediation of the late Roshdieh, the newspaper released from arrest. The fire and the lack of printing equipments in Alexandria caused the transfer of the newspaper to Qairo and the period of journalism of its director began there.
Chehre-Nama was founded in Egypt by the directory of Haj Mirza AbdolMohammad (after his death, the newspaper was published by his son Moaddab Zadeh Irani, and the newspaper was published in…. The first issued was published in
This issue was published in 16 pages in "Kheshti" size and with typography like previous. Also in the first page of this issue, after the list of contents, there is a report about the transfer of the newspaper's office from Alexandria to Qairo. In regard to its contents, Qairo's Chehre-Nama was alike Alexandria's one and its editorial had been written under the title of "political" and the rest were Iran and foreign news and the translations of foreign news agencies and world's affairs. Chehre-Nama was published for 32 years and after the death of its director, the newspaper was given to his son, its almost 40 years period is the complete and detailed history of Iran and the world for half of a century. While the various photos of Iranian and non-Iranian statesmen and also of different buildings have been gathered in it.
The importance of Chehre-Nama is in printing a subject in blaming Ahmad Ali Shah in a period of Iran history which is known as minor desposition.