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.