UN and Niavaran Cultural Center to hold Mevlana ceremony

TEHRAN -- The United Nations and the Niavaran Cultural Center are to hold a ceremony named “A Night with Mevlana” on October 27.

Representatives of the United Nations and UNESCO will also pay tribute to Ahmad Jalali, Iran’s former UNESCO ambassador in Paris. Jalali recently received the Rumi Medal for the effort he has made to introduce the world to the thoughts and beliefs of Rumi.

Literary figures Jalaleddin Kazzazi, Gholamreza A’vani, and Hossein Elahi Qomsheii will give talks on Rumi’s philosophy of peace as depicted in his poetry.

-----------Javid Iqbal to participate in intl. Rumi congress

TEHRAN -- The son of Pakistani poet and philosopher Muhammad Iqbal Lahori, Javid Iqbal, is to participate in an international congress commemorating the 800th birth anniversary of Molana Jalal ad-Din Rumi which will take place in Tehran, Tabriz and Khoy from October 28 to November 1.

Javid Iqbal, eminent scholar, former Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court and a retired judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, will be speaking on the first day of the congress.

---------Intl. conference on stories in Rumi’s works to open in Tehran

TEHRAN -- A two-day international conference on Rumi’s storytelling will open on October 28 at IRIB’s International Conference Hall in Tehran.

The place of Rumi in Persian storytelling, the structure of stories in Rumi’s works, and the concepts of Rumi’s stories will be discussed at the conference.

The best submitted theses will be awarded.