Four foreign scholars receive nominations for Jalal Sattari Award

TEHRAN, Sep. 13 (MNA) – Five nominations for the Jalal Sattari Award, a nongovernmental Iranian honor for ritual performance, have been announced with four of them are from foreign countries. Norwegian folk singer Sondre Bratland, and the head of the Scientific and Art Center of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory Margarita Karatygina from Russia are among the nominees. A theater professor at the University of Bologna, Marco De Marinis, Austrian composer Klaus Lang, and Iranian scholar Sudabeh Fazaeli have also received nominations for the award. The winner will be announced during the closing ceremony of the 16th International Traditional and Ritual Theater Festival on September 21. The award was established in 2011 to honor scholars of different nationalities for their efforts in promotion of ritual and folk artistic performances. It was named after the Iranian scholar and mythologist Jalal Sattari Sattari, 82, is an Iranian scholar, mythologist, who has written over 90 books on mythology, dramatic literature and cultural criticism. Eighteen scholars from Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Armenia and several other countries will deliver speeches on interdisciplinary studies and rituals during the festival. The 16th International Traditional and Ritual Theater Festival will be held simultaneously in Tehran, Kashan, Hamedan, Khorramabad and Fasa from September 15 to 21.