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    Iranian Cultural Heritage News Agency, Iran
    April 15 2006

    Caspian Sea Neighbors to Study Norouz


    Scholars from 10 countries will discuss Norouz and common culture
    during Caspian Sea Common Cultural Heritage Festival which is to
    start work today.

    Tehran, 15 April 2006 (CHN) -- 32 Iranian and foreign scholars will
    give presentations on `the state of Norouz in Iran and neighboring
    countries' during the Caspian Sea Common Cultural Heritage Festival
    held in the Iranian northern province of Mazandaran from 15-19 April
    2006.

    `During this festival, papers submitted by scholars from 10
    participant countries with a focus on Norouz, common folkloric
    culture and art including music, architecture, and handicrafts will
    be analyzed,' said Delavar Bozorgnia, Director of Cultural Heritage
    and Tourism Organization of Mazandaran Province. He further added
    that 68 papers from Iranian and 32 from foreign scholars had been
    submitted to this festival before the deadline.

    Pointing to the fact that this festival has been largely welcomed by
    domestic and foreign intellectuals, Bozorgnia added, `Among the
    prominent participants are head of Iran-French Research Institute,
    President of Armenia's College of Eastern Studies, head of National
    Museum of Armenia, two outstanding Ironologists from the Republic of
    Azerbaijan, Iran's master of literature Dr. Mir-jalaleddin Kazazi
    along with a number of other Iranian and foreign scholars.'

    `Topics covered by these scholars include Norouz in Iran's Neighbor
    countries especially Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan, and
    also similarities in the visual art and common traditional musical
    instruments particular of these countries, commonalities in
    handicrafts and architectural styles of Iran, Uzbekistan and Turkey,
    and many more,' said Bozorgnia about the papers which will be
    presented during this festival.

    The first round of the International Festival of the Common Heritage
    of Caspian Sea Regional Countries will start its work today in the
    city of Sari and will end on 19 April 2006.
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