INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
State University, the Iranian Culture Center in Tbilisi announced on Sunday.Tea Shurgaia, a professor at the Iranian Studies Department of
Tbilisi State University, also attended the award ceremony.Zorzoliani won the medal at the Fifth Shahriar International Scientific and
Cultural Medals Festival in November 2020 for her article on Iran-Georgia cultural relations and the place of the Shahnameh in Georgia
However, she could not attend the festival due the COVID-19 pandemic.In a meeting with Zorzoliani, Mehri, who is the representative of the
Sadi Foundation, a Tehran-based organization that promotes the Persian language abroad, praised the expert for her career in Iranian
studies, which spans nearly 50 years.He said that Zorzoliani has made great contributions to the establishment of the Iranian Studies
Department, where numerous students and professors have been trained.On her part, Zorzoliani expressed her thanks to the Iranian Culture
Persian literature.Tbilisi State University paid homage to Zorzoliani in 2012 for her prominent role in promoting the Shahnameh in her
country.The 2021 Shahriar International Scientific and Cultural Medals Festival honored the Georgian Iranologist Giorgi Lobzhanidze with a
Shahriar Medal.Lobzhanidze, an oriental studies and Arabian language graduate of Tbilisi State University, is the director of the Oriental
research project in religion and mysticism at the University of Tehran
After returning to Georgia in 1999, he again started working at Tbilisi State University.He is a translator of the Quran, and the collection
Ahmad-Ali Mehri (3rd L) as Tea Shurgaia of the Iranian Studies Department is seen in the photo.MMS/YAW
