7Berkeh: 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 […]
Persian Gulf studies
7Berkeh: 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 […]