Touraj Daryaee holds the Maseeh Chair in Persian Studies and Culture and is the director of the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies at the University of California, Irvine.
Herodotus (Greek: Ηρόδοτος) (c. 484 – c. 425 BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thur…
Arthur Schopenhauer was born in the city of Danzig (then part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth; present day Gdańsk, Poland) and was a German philosopher best known for his work The World as Will …
Ervand Abrahamian (B.A., M.A., Oxford University; Ph.D. Columbia University), an Armenian born in Iran and raised in England, is well qualified by education and experience to teach world and Middle Ea…
Oriana Fallaci was born in Florence, Italy. During World War II, she joined the resistance despite her youth, in the democratic armed group "Giustizia e Libertà". Her father Edoardo Fallaci, a cabinet…
Simin Dāneshvar was an Iranian academic, novelist, fiction writer and translator, largely regarded as the first major Iranian woman novelist. Daneshvar had a number of firsts to her credit.
Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises (German pronunciation: [ˈluːtvɪç fɔn ˈmiːzəs]; September 29, 1881 – October 10, 1973) was an Austrian economist, historian, philosopher, author, and classical liberal w…
احسان یارشاطر در ۱۴ فروردین ۱۲۹۹ در یک خانوادهٔ بهائی اهل کاشان در همدان متولد شد. پدرش هاشم، بازرگانی بود که به امور دنیوی توجه نداشت و حواسش مشغول مذهب بود. مادرش روحانیه میثاقیه در زمان خود مترقی ب…
Pierre Briant (born September 30, 1940 in Angers) is a French Iranologist, Professor of History and Civilization of the Achaemenid World and the Empire of Alexander the Great at the Collège de France …
هاشم رضی (۱۳۰۳در تهران) ایرانشناس و مترجم ایرانی. رضی بیش از ۲۰ کتاب تالیفی دارد. هاشم رضی از پژوهشگران در حیطهٔ تاریخ زردشتیان است و کتابها و تحقیقات بسیاری در این زمینه دارد.
Iraj Pezeshkzad (1928 in Tehran - 12 January 2022 in Los Angeles) was an Iranian writer and author of the famous Persian novel "Dā'i Jān Napoleon" (دایی جان ناپلئون) (Uncle Napoleon, translated as "My…
Books can be attributed to "Unknown" when the author or editor (as applicable) is not known and cannot be discovered. If at all possible, list at least one actual author or editor for a book instead o…
محمد ابراهیم باستانی پاریزی در سوم دیماه ۱۳۰۴ خورشیدی در پاریز، از توابع شهرستان سیرجان در استان کرمان متولد شد. وی تا پایان تحصیلات ششم ابتدایی در پاریز تحصیل کرد و در عین حال از محضر پدر خود مرحوم …
بهرام بیضایی: مروری بر زندگی و آثار یک اسطوره زنده
بهرام بیضایی، نویسنده، کارگردان، پژوهشگر و اسطورهشناس برجسته ایرانی، در ۵ دی ۱۳۱۷ در تهران چشم به جهان گشود. او به عنوان یکی از پیشگامان موج نوی سینم…
