7Berkeh – 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 […]
the Guardian of the Persian Gulf
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 […]
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 […]