Mahmoud Watankhah Khanqah, born in November 1990 in Karaj, is a PhD student of Islamic Arts at Tarbiat Modares University. He learned Nastaliq calligraphy professionally under the supervision of master Ziauddin Gholami, and at the age of seventeen, he obtained an honors degree in Nastaliq calligraphy. In 2014, he was selected to be sent to Germany as one of the selected members of Isfahan University of Art students and as a representative of the art of calligraphy, and after a group trip to Freiburg in Germany, he held several group exhibitions in the field of Islamic arts. He conducted calligraphy training workshops in several important universities of Freiburg, Germany, such as "Education" University and "Art, Design and Music" University in the travel program. In 2015, he was invited to Freiburg University of Education, Germany, to conduct a one-month course for the elementary education of Iranian calligraphy, and held calligraphy training classes in the program "Decoration Seminar in Contemporary Art" for the students of this university. In 2014, he was selected as the best young artist of Alborz province. Also, in 2016, he appeared in a group art exhibition titled "Rite" in San Francisco, USA, with a calligraphic painting.