Arash Zeini

Auch Gedanken fallen manchmal unreif vom Baum.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

  • Professor Maria Macuch to speak on Kinship Ties and Fictive Alliances in Sasanian Law at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA on Friday 13 December at 5.30pm.

  • In 2011, when we met for CoAv 1.0, a lot of time and attention were dedicated to organisational matters. Groups were formed, members expressed their interest in texts and types of activities, etc. We have come a long way, and…

  • The second meeting of the European research network Corpus Avesticum 2.0 (CoAv) will take place in Salamanca. Between 28 and 30 November researchers from Spain, Germany, Italy and the UK will meet at Europe’s third oldest university to discuss various…

  • Pourshariati, Parvaneh. 2013. Introduction: Further engaging the paradigm of Late Antiquity. Journal of Persianate Studies 6. 1–14. In her excellent introduction to the latest volume of Journal of Persianate Studies, a special issue, Pourshariati discusses the problem of periodisation in…

  • The Asian and African studies blog of the British Library has a very useful summary of the recent conference, The Digital Humanities + Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, which was organised and hosted by the Middle Eastern Studies Department of…

  • Washingtonpost.com has a multimedia-like feature on Zoroastrians in Iran. A quick scan of the first page does not reveal any date for the feature, but I think it could be from the year 2000 or so. It is available in…

  • Small in numbers, big in history, these days Zoroastrians live a quite life without attracting much publicity. Ted Rall’s choice to use Zoroastrianism as the theme of one of his cartoons is surprising.

  • Vor etwa zehn Tagen habe ich beim Stöbern in der VUB “Die Schiiten” von Professor Heinz Halm entdeckt. Das Buch ist im Jahre 2005 in der Reihe WISSEN bei C. H. Beck erschienen. Bereits beim ersten Durchblättern fiel mir die…

  • کاش سرم را بردارمو برای هفته‌ای در گنجه‌ای بگذارم و قفل کنم؛در تاريکی يک گنجه خالی! روی شانه‌هایم،جای سرم چناری بکارمو برای هفته‌ای در سایه‌اش آرام گیرم… ناظم حكمت

  • Few days ago, a friend received her first Zoroastrian spam mail. I found it interesting, so here it goes: From: Dr. Agathangelos Eutropius II <eutropiusii@yahoo.es> Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 22:51:09 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Zorastrianism Greetings Direccion: calle Brazil 10,…

  • According to the Persian Wikipedia, I was one of the first advocates of FOSS in Iran. The little entry continues to claim that Chapar Shabdiz was the first Iranian company to base its commercial business plan on FOSS. It also…

  • Yesterday I visited Ostad Lotfi. Once the meeting was over, I thought I should use the chance and take a walk around the University of Tehran. The book shops around the university are known for their access to rare books.…

  • این نوشته‌ی جالب رو در یک وب‌گاه گردشگری قزوین پیدا کردم: قدیمی ترین خیابان ایران در قزوین می‌باشد. نام این خیابان سپه است که از مسجد جامع قزوین به کاخ عالیقاپو منتهی می‌شود.