Mahmoud Khoshnam is a Persian music critic. He was the editor of Music Review magazine in the years 1960-1963.

He studied political sciences at the University of Tehran

University of Tehran

The University of Tehran , also known as Tehran University and UT, is Iran's oldest university. Located in Tehran, the university is among the most prestigious in the country, and is consistently selected as the first choice of many applicants in the annual nationwide entrance exam for top Iranian...

 and continued his studies in sociology in Germany and Austria.

He taught literature at the Persian National Music Conservatory in Tehran and was the editor of Roudaky Monthly for five years.

From 1960 he was the editor of Music Review magazine (Majale-ye Musighi) in Tehran. Khoshnam shortly was in the head of Roudaki Hall public relation section.

In 1980 he moved to Germany. In following years he cooperated with Deutsche Welle

Deutsche Welle

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 and BBC

BBC

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Persian Service. His main programs were focused on Persian folk and pop music.

A selection of Khoshnam articles/interviews was published in Sweden in 1998 titled "In the Field of Music" [dar Ghalamro'e Musighi].