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Pasargad Foundation Awards “Personality of the Year 2020”

Posted on Mar, 12, 2020
Contributed to WCHV by WCHV

The Pasargad Heritage Foundation Presents:

The Nowruz Award March 21, 2020.

This press release has been published by the Pasargad Heritage Foundation to the Personalities of the Year for their vision and efforts to preserve the national, cultural, historical, and natural heritage of Iran that also belongs to all humanity.

Dr. Nastour Rakhshani, a painter and art researcher, receives the Nowruz Award for
“Personality of the Year in Art and Culture” for:

  • A lifetime of tireless work as a valued, admired, and irredentist artist at home and in asylum
  • Striving to gain a status similar to that of European artists
  • His unique style, combining the art of both Eastern and Western paintings
  • Representing Iran and Iranians at major European exhibitions
  • Many years of working to introduce Iranian art and culture abroad
  • Representing the history and culture of ancient Iran through painting national figures and displaying Iran’s works of architecture and civilization

Dr. Nastour Rakhshani Bio:
Dr. Nastour Rakhshani was born in Tehran in 1947, where he spent his childhood and
adolescence.

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Professor Hooshang Ziaei, a well known Iranian expert on wildlife and environmental and natural resources, a scientific member and advisor at the Iranian Museum of Natural Resources, and a lecturer in the fields of wildlife management and biology at Iranian universities, is the recipient of this year’s “Personality of the Year in the Field of Natural Resources” and the recipient of the Nowruz Award for the following achievements:

  • Over 50 years of continuous efforts to protect and preserve Iran’s natural heritage and environment
  • Researching and publishing more than a dozen valuable books and articles related to Iran’s natural heritage
  • Educating students, experts, and enthusiasts about natural heritage and the
    environment, and preparing them for the challenge of tackling further destruction of Iran’s environment
  • Helping to preserve Iran’s Museum of Natural Resources and Wildlife
  • Significant efforts to prevent illegal hunting practices

Professor Ziaei’s Bio:
Professor Ziaei began his research and development work several years before the Iranian revolution in 1979, managing and overseeing projects such as rescuing and preserving the Persian deer and lion as well as the International Asian Cheetah Conservation Project, for over forty years.

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Dr. Mohsen Banaei (Mazdak Bamdadan), a researcher, historian, author, and physician, is the recipient of the “Nowruz Award for Expert of Cultural Heritage of the Year” for the following achievements:

  • Years of effort towards learning different languages to gain knowledge and understanding of the history of religions
  •  Collecting authoritative research and works related to Iranian history and culture
  • Having a clear and present view of the history and culture of Iran and Islam
  • Utilizing a rational and critical approach towards those who have an antagonistic
    view of pre-Islamic history
  • Unparalleled courage in telling historical facts in the context of scientific
    historiography
  • Publishing a valuable book, The Dark Abyss of History, and presenting unique
    findings on one of the most important Iranian religions for the first time in the
    Persian language

Dr. Mohsen Banaie’s bio:
Dr. Mohsen Banaie was born on May 22, 1965 in Tehran, Iran. He spent most of his
childhood in the Iranian province of East Azerbaijan, before he later moved to Tehran.

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