http://www.zeini.info Arash Zeini's personal website Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:51:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ANCIENT INDIA & IRAN TRUST Friday Lectures, Michaelmas Term 2008 (5pm, 23 Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge) 3 October Mr Shyam Chainani (Bombay Environmental Action Group) ‘Defending Heritage: An Indian Experience’ 31 October Mr Mohammed Tahir Zeb (Hazara University; AIIT Pakistan Visiting Fellow) ‘Early Islamic Monuments from DI Khan to Multan’ 21 November Dr Iain Gardner (University of Sydney) ‘The ... http://www.zeini.info/2008/10/02/friday-lectures-michaelmas-term-2008-aiit/ The Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics 2008 will be held from 28 July - 08 August 2008 at the Faculty of Arts. This year's Summer School consists of the following six programmes: the Indo-European Programme, the Iranian Programme, the Indological Programme, the Semitic Programme, the Russian Programme and ... http://www.zeini.info/2008/06/02/leiden-summer-school-in-languages-and-linguistics/ Bruce Lincoln's book has been reviewed by Tytus Mikolajczak: Bruce Lincoln, Religion, empire, and torture. The case of Achaemenian Persia, with a postscript on Abu Ghraib. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. 192. ISBN 978-0-226-48196-8 Read it at Bryn Mawr Classical Review. http://www.zeini.info/2008/05/18/religion-empire-and-torture/ Yann Martel, the author of Life of Pi, has been sending a book every two weeks to Canada's Prime Minister since April 16, 2007. A visit to Canada's House of Commons on March 28th, 2007 and the first hand experience with politicians inspired him to this wonderful project. He writes: For ... http://www.zeini.info/2008/04/26/what-is-stephen-harper-reading/ 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 an HTML and a flash version. I did not have ... http://www.zeini.info/2008/04/17/zoroastrians-wp/ Following the invasion of Iraq statements like this have appeared all over the Internet: As a minority in Muslim societies, the Kurds often tell their children that Islam was forced on them by Arab conquerors. In recent years, many have returned to the original religion of Zoroastrianism, a condition that ... http://www.zeini.info/2008/04/14/alliance-with-kurds/ If you are struggling with Unicode and related fonts, have a look at these sites: Alan Wood's Unicode Resources Gallery of Unicode Fonts On snot and fonts http://www.zeini.info/2008/04/13/unicode-fonts/ The Indologica website offers a comprehensive list of downloadable books. It is a very useful resource if you need older books on indological subjects. While you are there, have a look at these pages too: Digitale Bücher Indologica blog http://www.zeini.info/2008/04/11/indologica/ Note: the lecture Programme has been revised ANCIENT INDIA & IRAN TRUST Friday Lectures, Easter Term 2008 (5pm, 23 Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge) 25 April: Dr Kate Crosby (SOAS) Pali as a Sacred Language 9 May: Ursula Sims-Williams (British Library) Reconstructing Provenance, with reference to Central Asian Manuscript Collections 23 May: Film screening, introduced by Rastin Mehri (SOAS) Zoroastrians in ... http://www.zeini.info/2008/04/10/how-the-old-iranian-scripts-were-deciphered/ Wendy Doniger has reviewed West's Indo-European Poetry and Myth in the London Review of Books. Admittedly, I am not too familiar with her work, but I have the impression that she is a gifted writer besides being an incredible scholar of religions. This review is no exception and is a ... http://www.zeini.info/2008/04/10/wendy-doniger-the-land-east-of-the-asterisk/