THE ZOROASTRIAN ASSOCIATION OF HOUSTON ANNOUNCES A 3-DAY MINI LECTURE SERIES: “When Iran was Zoroastrian: From the Medes to the Muslims.”
By: Rashna Writer, Ph.D.
PROGRAM:
- Saturday September 2, 2006
The Achaemenians: Founders of the Iranian State
10:00 am – 12:00 pm and 2:00 – 4:00 pm - Sunday September 3, 2006
The Parthians: Wrongly overlooked by history
10:00 am – 12:00 pm and 2:00 – 4:00 pm - Monday September 4, 2006
The Sasanians: The apogee of Zoroastrian Iran
10:00 am – 12:00 pm and 2:00 – 4:00 pm
LOCATION:
- Zoroastrian Heritage & Cultural Center
8787 West Airport Boulevard
Houston, Texas 77071
COST:
- $10.00 per day (Paid at the entrance)
- $25.00 for 3 days (Paid at the entrance)
- Box lunch will be served
Bibliography of the Speaker:
Rashna Writer received her Ph.D. in International Relations from the London School of Economics. She served as a Research Assistant at Manchester University, and has been a Lecturer in Pre-Islamic Iran at Birkbeck College, London University, and at Richmond College, London.
She is currently Head of Global Risk and a Senior Assistant Director at the Merchant International Group, London.
Dr. Writer has presented several talks and lectures on Zoroastrianism and the history of Pre-Islamic Islam at numerous conferences.
She is the author of: Contemporary Zoroastrians: An Unstructured Nation, University of America Press, and the co-author of The Memoirs of Keikhsrow Shahrokh, Edwin Mellen Press. She is also the author of From Zarathushtra to Muhammad: The Re-Shaping of Iran, currently in press.
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