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May 15th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad along with a number of officials attended the ceremony held on May 14, 2012 in honoring the epic poet Ferdowsi.
About 150 prominent artists in Naqqali along with several Persian literature Professors and scholars from Tajikistan attended the ceremony held at the Ferdowsi tomb in Tous.
Naqqali is a style of storytelling in Persian literature dedicated to epic stories from Ferdowsi’s masterpiece The Shahnameh.
Ferdowsi’s worldly known book, The Shahnameh (Letter of the Kings), is a classic among epic Persian poetry and recounts Iran’s mythical and historical past.
Dating back to the Safavid Dynasty, Naqqali is performed in verse or prose with a single person playing the roles of all characters with a special tone and expression.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) registered Naqqali, as the oldest form of dramatic performance in Iran, on its World Intangible Cultural Heritage List in November, 2011.
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