Workshop and seminar

“Tajikistan Night,” was the very first event in the new “Diplomatic Nights” series, organized by the Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia, the Embassy of the Republic of Tajikistan in Iran, the Hūrshīd Institute of Culture and Literature, and the Iran-Tajikistan Friendship Association.

Touraj Daryaee, historian and director of the Samuel Jordan Center for the Persian Studies of at the University of California, Irvine, has been appointed editor-in-chief of the Encyclopaedia Iranica, succeeding the late Ehsan Yarshater.

The 40th anniversary ceremony of the Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia was held on Saturday morning, March 1, at the Rayzan International Conference Center in Tehran.

A memorandum of cooperation was signed between the Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia (CGIE) and the National Encyclopedia Institute of Tajikistan in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan.