The amazing technicolor Yusuf u Zulaykha manuscript from Bukhara in the Sissinghurst collection with Jaimee Comstock-Skipp Jaimee Comstock-Skipp will give a lecture on a recently conserved illustrated Persian manuscript belonging to Vita Sackville-West...
Class Relations and Religious Hybridization in Urban sites in (post-)Hellenistic Bactria and Gandhara with Christos Nikolaou The talk investigates how the political agendas of different classes of people affected the religious hybridization that took...
Book Launch: Karbala in the Ta'ziyeh Episode, Shi'i Devotional Drama in Iran with Lucy Deacon In this webinar, Dr. Lucy Deacon presents on her new book Karbala in the Taʿziyeh Episode: Shiʿi Devotional Drama in Iran (2024). Verisimilitude is not the...
Book Launch: The I.B. Tauris Handbook of Iranian Cinema with Maryam Ghorbankarimi, Michelle Langford, Zahra Khosroshahi, Laudan Nooshin, Lindsey Moore, Kaveh Abbasian, Max Bledstein, and Matthias Wittmann The book is organised around eight broad themes...
CANCELLED: Fulayj: A Sasanian Persian Fort on the Batinah in Oman with Eve MacDonald We regret to inform you that due to unforeseen circumstances, our speaker, Even MacDonald, will not be able to deliver the lecture as planned. The event will be rescheduled...
Using early plant remains to understand transmission of farming eastwards through Iran into Asia with Hannah Caroe The Middle Eastern Fertile Crescent, whose eastern arc extends along the Zagros Mountains of western Iran, is renowned as a key world...
Music Making in Iran from the 15th to the Early 20th Century with Amir Hosein Pourjavady This presentation focuses on Music Making in Iran from the 15th to the Early 20th Century, recently published by Edinburgh University Press in association with Aga...
Funding Opportunities for Researchers in Middle Eastern Studies at the British International Research Institutes (BIRI): BIAA, BIPS, BISI and CBRL Event co-organised by BRISMES, BIAA, BIPS, BISI and CBRL. The webinar is open to all but registration is required....
A Persian Paradise: Vita and Harold in Iran 1925-1927 with Nicci Obholzer Reflections on Sissinghurst’s exhibition “A Persian Paradise: Vita and Harold in Iran 1925-1927”, held between October 2023 and May 2024. Thanks to Royal Oak Foundation funding,...
Making and Remaking Empire in Early Qajar Iran with Assef Ashraf In 1722, the Safavid empire collapsed. An empire that ruled for over two centuries, and which in its heyday spanned parts of Central Asia, the Caucasus, and present-day Iran, came to a swift end....