Dr Jalil Doostkhah is the leading scholar on Shahnameh Studies having spent over 60 years of his life on studying in this area. He has a PhD in Persian language & literature from Tehran University (1969).
Dr Doostkhah was a Professor at the University of Isfahan and a guest Professor at the University of Ahvaz (Jondi Shapour) from 1970 to 1991. In 1976-1977 he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Durham-England.
Dr Doostkhah has authored and translated ten books and many articles and essays published in Iran and abroad during the period from 1969 to 2013. He was an editor and author of some entries of Encyclopaedia Iranica Columbia University-New York, from 1993-1994 and has continued to contribute online to the present.

Please note: This lecture will be presented entirely in Persian

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Dr Zahra Taheri
Zahra.Taheri@anu.edu.au