Due to Ghazni's great role in the promotion of Persian language and Islamic culture, it was nominated by Islamic countries as the cultural capital of the Islamic world in 2013.
To pay tribute to this ancient city, ECO Cultural Institute, has published the book "Contemporary Poetry of Ghazni," compiled by Mohammad Hossein Fayyaz. The author's goal had been to collect the works of poets originally from Ghazni, published in the last thirty years.