From Myth to Tradition: Woman’s New Year Celebrations in Iran, Zahra Taheri, Jan 5, 2020

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Dr. Taheri studied classical and contemporary Persian literature in Iran at Pahlavi (Shiraz) University, and received her Master’s degree in Persian studies from the Pajuheshkade-ye Farhang-e Iran, and her PH.D from the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. During the last two decades she has taught Persian literature, language, Iranian history and culture, and Gender and culture courses in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley (USA), the Department of Persian Studies at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Japan), and the Middle East and Central Asian Studies Department in the Australasian National University (Australia).

The Image of Women in the Interpretation of the Myth of Creation, Jan 6, 2019

Dr. Taheri studied classical and contemporary Persian literature in Iran at Pahlavi (Shiraz) University, and received her Master’s degree in Persian studies from the Pajuheshkade-ye Farhang-e Iran, and her PH.D from the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. During the last two decades she has taught Persian literature, language, Iranian history and culture, and Gender and culture courses in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley (USA), the Department of Persian Studies at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Japan), and the Middle East and Central Asian Studies Department in the Australasian National University (Australia). Her first book, Hozur-e peyda va penhan-e zan dar mutun-e sufiyyeh was published by the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies/Japan in 2007. The third editions of this book was published in 2018.

A Lecture by Dr. Zahra Taheri, Scholar Topic: سکوت کهن آینه, Jan 7, 2018

Dr. Taheri studied classical and contemporary Persian literature in Iran at Pahlavi (Shiraz) University, and received her Master’s degree in Persian studies from the Pajuheshkade-ye Farhang-e Iran, and her PH.D from the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. During the last two decades she has taught Persian literature, language, Iranian history and culture, and Gender and culture courses in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley (USA), the Department of Persian Studies at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Japan), and Australasian National University (Australia). Her first book, Hozur-e peyda va penhan-e zan dar mutun-e sufiyyeh was published by the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies/Japan in 2007. Her second book “The Ancient Silence of Mirrors” (Sokut-e Kohan-e ‘Ayene-haa) has been published in Japanese in Tokyo, and Persian by Nashr-e Sales in Iran. She is currently working on her upcoming book on “The Image of Women in Persian Ethical Texts.” This research project received a fellowship from the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford in 2016-2017. Taheri is also a published poet with two collections of poetry: Milad and Pegaah-e Nokhostin. Her third poetry book “Daaman be Khaak Mikeshad Maah” is in the process of being published by “Nashr-e Sales” in Iran.