TEHRAN -- Iranian and Georgian scholars discussed the expansion of cultural relations between the two countries during a meeting at the 26th Tehran International Book Fair on Tuesday.
The Iranian cultural attaché in Tbilisi Ehsan Khazaii, Chairman of the Georgian Writers Union Makvala Gonashvili, Georgian Iranologist Nomadi Bartaia, Georgian Shahnameh expert Bela Shalvashvilis, and several scholars and officials attended the meeting.
The Iranian cultural attaché’s office in Georgia has invited members of the Georgian Writers Union to visit the Tehran International Book Fair, Khazaei mentioned during the meeting.
“The translation of Persian books into Georgian by veteran Georgian Iranologists is one of the important activities to boost ties between the two countries,” Gonashvili said during the event.
She said that all of the houses in Georgia have at least some Persian books in their libraries.
The Tehran International Book Fair, which is currently underway at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Mosalla, run until May 11.
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