۷Berkeh – Raheleh Bahador: The first Ahmed Eghtedari Prize ceremony for studies of the Persian Gulf and the south of Iran was held at the defense hall of Medical Sciences College in Gerash in the rainy evening of 2 May, 2024. It is a biennial scientific prize named after Professor Ahmed Eghtedari, known as the […]
Persian Gulf
۷Berkeh – Raheleh Bahador: “The Persian Gulf is the heart of Iran; and Ahmad Eghtedari is the heart of the Persian Gulf.” It was based on this statement by Shafiei Kadkani, one of the greatest literary figures of Iran, that the conference held in Gerash on the Persian Gulf National Day, on April 29th, was […]
۷Berkeh: First call for entries for The Ahmad Eghtedari Award was issued on April 30th, on Persian Gulf National Day, to commemorate Dr. Eghtedari (1925-2019), the great scholar aptly named “The Father of Persian Gulf Studies”. “Ahmad Eghtedari left behind an invaluable body of scholarly research which has become the basis of studies around Persian […]
۷Berkeh: Dr. Ahmad Eghtedari, the most prominent scholar of the Persian Gulf studies, is recovering his health in his house in Tehran after undergoing an operation a week ago. Dr. Eghtedari is 94 years old and until recently, he used to show up in his office in the Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia to […]
۷Berkeh: “Gerash Day”, on 11/11 in Persian calendar, or January 31, is the day the government approved Gerash as a politically independent county in the year 2009. The overjoy that followed this announcement was because people of Gerash believed it was a liberating step away from what they saw as a long-standing maltreatment by the […]
Gerishna: The list of professors and scholars attending the celebration of Ahmad Eqtedari’s life-long achievements was no less than an epic catalogue, and that is no less than what he deserves. Dr. Eqtedari’s studies in the fields of ethnic and social histories of south of Iran, especially about Persian Gulf, are monumental scholarly works and […]