by Arzan Sam Wadia | Oct 8, 2018 | News
In June 2018, Roshan and Rohintan Rivetna drove down to Pennsylvania, to visit Pallan Ichaporia, at the Rehab Center in Sinking Spring, PA, and to bring back his collection of books that the family wished to donate to FEZANA. The following card was presented to Pallan...
by Arzan Sam Wadia | Jul 2, 2018 | News
Nothing validates our efforts more than the donations and contributions made to support us, and from time to time, we have received donations from several people in the U.S., England, and India. Recognizing the importance of preserving resources that primarily pertain...
by Arzan Sam Wadia | Jul 2, 2018 | News
On Saturday, April 21, 2018, the ZAH Library Committee presented two distinguished out-of-town speakers in two sessions before and after lunch. In the morning, Dinyar Patel traced the fascinating history of female education as it evolved in the 19th century, and how...
by Arzan Sam Wadia | Jul 5, 2017 | News
Below is a presentation of FIRES and its activities, at the FEZANA Annual General Meeting. Download the report in PDF Format
by Arzan Sam Wadia | Jul 5, 2017 | Featured Selection
FIRES organized a spectacular exhibition as part of the 30th FEZANA Annual General Meeting in Houston. To kick off the exhibition, FIRES invited Aban Marker-Kabraji as the Keynote speaker. Below is a video recording of the talk Aban Marker Kabraji Aban Marker...
by FIRES | Jul 29, 2016 | Featured Selection
Professor Almut Hintze FBA, Zartoshty Brothers Professor of Zoroastrianism at SOAS University of London, has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Investigator Grant of just under €2.5 million (ca. £2 million) to investigate the Yasna, the core...
by FIRES | Jul 28, 2016 | Book Review
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism, edited by M. Stausberg and Y. S-D. Vevaina with Anna Tessmann. Malden, Mass./Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2015. Pp. 668. ISBN: 9781444331356 This book review originally appeared in the FEZANA Journal Winter 2015 Issue and...
by FIRES | Dec 9, 2014 | Book Review
Few would dispute today that religion has been playing a pervasive role in the political and social lives of people in Iran. Indeed, never has cogent understanding of religions and their complexities in Iran seem more important than in the recent decades. Increasing...
by FIRES | Dec 5, 2014 | Book Review
In Discovering Cyrus: The Persian Conqueror Astride the Ancient World, Reza Zarghamee relates a shocking omission. “Ferdowsi does not mention Cyrus in the Shahnameh, and the Sasanids seemingly have no memory of him through local Persian traditions” (535)....
by FIRES | Nov 10, 2014 | Featured Selection
The book, ”In Search of My Master”, is written by the famous author Marjorie Husain and displays the 40-year artistic journey of legendary Pakistani artist Jimmy Engineer. The book’s full-page color reproductions of scenes from the independence movement of Pakistan,...
