Tehran to host 1st intl. conference on women and Islamic Awakening

TEHRAN, May 17 (MNA) – The first international conference on women and Islamic Awakening will be held in Tehran from July 14 to 15. Female intellectuals and scholars from across the world, particularly Muslim countries, will attend the conference. University students, professors, and experts have been invited to submit their articles on the Islamic Awakening to the secretariat of the conference by June 19. The two-day World Conference on Youth and Islamic Awakening was held in Tehran from January 29 to 30. The participants of the conference issued a final statement in which they said that the thoughts of the late Imam Khomeini, the Founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, inspired the Islamic Awakening movement in the Arab world.