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TEHRAN, Dec. 17 -
Iranian writer and theater director Qotbeddin Sadeqi
received Iraq’s Aras Book of the Year Award on
December 15, the Persian service of IRNA reported on
Saturday.
The award was presented to Sadeqi at the Mah Sharaf
Khanum Commemoration Congress, which was held in
Erbil, Iraq from December 11 to 15.
Over one hundred scientific and cultural figures
from across the world attended the congress in Iraqi
Kurdistan, in which thirty articles in Kurdish,
Persian, English, and Arabic were presented.
In addition, several works by Mah Sharaf Khanum were
published by the organizers in Persian and Kurdish
during the congress.
Iranian writer and translator Ata Nahaii, Iraqi
historian Jamal Rashid, and Armenian poet Tosine
Rashid were also among the award winners.
Mah Sharaf Khanum Kurdistani (1805–47) was born in
Sanandaj and died in Sulaimaniyah in Kurdistan-Iraq.
She was a member of the feudal aristocracy in the
court of the Ardalan principality centered in
Sanandaj, Kurdestan. She was a poet and said to be
the only woman historiographer of the Middle East
until the end of the nineteenth century.
MNA
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