(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The 1st International Conference on Women and Islamic Awakening has opened in Tehran with the participation of female intellectuals and scholars from around the world.
1,500 women active in political, cultural and social areas from 81 world countries including Iran are participating in the event.
The Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to inaugurate the gathering.
Senior Iranian and foreign officials including Ali Akbar Velayati, the secretary-general of the World Assembly of Islamic Awakening and an advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, Commander of Iran's Basij Force Brigadier General Mohammad-Reza Naqdi and Chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq Seyyed Ammar al-Hakim are also attending the conference.
The forum is to focus on six pivotal issues of Islamic thinking, Islamic awakening and revolutionary act, women and Islamic awakening, challenges, threats and guidelines.
It will also hold panels on women and Islamic awakening: achievements and demands, international relations and interactions, the issue of family and capacity building among revolutionary forces.
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10 July 2012 - 06:33
News ID: 328049
Tehran is hosting a two-day international conference on women and Islamic awakening which started Tuesday morning.
