Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 07/04/2026Before playing Kamancheh, he says: 'Hello, I'm Mohammad-Reza Afarideh, the director of the ed. institute that has now been destroyed. I wanted the last sound coming from my institute not to be of missiles and war; (I want the) final sound to be of the instrument that I played in it. Thank you'. 7406200
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 07/04/2026Ali Ghamsari, a musician, on Monday in front of the Damavand power plant! 0208
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 03/04/2026In tomorrow's 'Fezana Talks' #31, @biryani4ever.bsky.social will talk to Veera Rustomji, an artist from Karachi, about 'Quiet Builders: Parsi Women in Early 20th-Century Karachi'. Follow the link for more information: fezana.org/quiet-builde... #Parsi #Zoroastrianism 120
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 23/11/20251: On Friday, 28 November, I will be speaking about the 'Epistles of Manuščihr' (881 CE) and their early Islamic context at @indiairantrust.bsky.social: "Navigating Zoroastrian Communal Identity in the Early Islamic Era" mailchi.mp/869594076c33... Abstract: The Abbāsid Caliphate came to power 171
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 08/10/2025Lovely piece by @timdowling.bsky.social! Don't try to guess the blue book though. Reminded me of Patrick Süskind's 1986 'observation', ‘Amnesie in litteris’, where the narrator also mostly remembers cover colours, but nothing else of the myriad books read. Published by @diogenesverlag.bsky.social 042
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 07/10/2025Took advantage of the @princetonupress.bsky.social's sales and purchased 2 books. One shall remain hidden until it has been referenced in my forthcoming book 🤲🏻 The visible one appears to serve well as a comfort read for the wounded and disillusioned soul of our times!!! #PhilSky #philosophy 184
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 16/09/2025to transcendence. It’s a set of interconnected essays with plenty of inspiring writing on life and philosophy, as the subtitle suggests. See the images for some examples. I might write more once I’ve finished reading the book. The Guardian review is here: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a... 040
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 16/09/2025A review in @theguardian.com piqued my interest in 'Transcendence for Beginners' by Clare Carlisle. The preview on @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social isn’t representative. There's much more to the book. I skimmed through a copy in a bookshop and was intrigued to read more. Don’t expect a systematic intro 133
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 28/08/2025Ich weiß nicht worum es geht, aber Bluesky und der Zufall scheinen es zu wissen 🙃 100
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 09/08/2025Saw this book by @emilyherring.bsky.social yesterday, read a couple of pages in the shop, and had to take it home. ‘Electrifying’, as the back cover says, is spot on. Can’t wait to finish it. #philsky 1161
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 19/07/2025Es ist schön, wenn man Bekannte trifft! Gebunden und als Taschenbuch in einem kleinen Buchladen. @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social @ronanhession.bsky.social 161
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 13/07/2025The third session of Dr Khanizadeh's #workshop on #Zoroastrianism is today. See the photo below on how to join. 010
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 08/07/2025Habe heute die neue Auflage dieser Bücher gesehen. Den Schrifttyp finde ich sehr schön, zum Umschlag habe ich keine Meinung. Die Buchhändlerin aber fand den nicht schön. Geschmackssache. Jetzt lese ich, dass die Abbildung KI-generiert ist. Nicht cool, @sfischerverlage.bsky.social, nicht cool!!! 020
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 07/07/2025Ingenious photo in @theguardian.com to the headline: 'Minister won’t rule out support cuts for children with EHCPs amid Send overhaul – UK politics live – UK politics live' The photographer deserves a prize! 020
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 22/06/2025What a stupid comment to make at a time like this; while millions are worried about their loved ones and a looming conflict. 310
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 04/06/2025The second volume of this three volume set is out, continuing with Dasturji's own publications. Looking forward to the third which will contain newer material. 020
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 26/05/2025Some colleagues take AI very seriously. I explored it initially, but left it as not interested and results too catastrophic. Still, have been bombarded with messages and selected as a participant for a short time! Every email now gets an AI prompt. Scary how they're pushing it as a tool of learning. 140
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 10/03/2025As we mark a decade of @biblioiranica.info, bibliographic & scholarly updates, we extend our heartfelt thanks to our colleagues & readers. What began small, now reaches around 1000 readers per week. We relaunch the website with a logo by @ammoslehi.bsky.social www.biblioiranica.info/a-decade-of-... 182
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 06/03/2025Hatty, @hattyrd.bsky.social, has recently joined this platform. I've seen her paintings up close and can confidently recommend following her 👇🏼 bsky.app/profile/rdpa... 160
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 05/03/2025They are wonderful to watch and listen to. Thanks for making them. I often read Blake in my 2nd hand 1966 reprint of a handy selection. I wonder which edition you use in the video where you show the illustrated poem! 110
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 03/02/2025Here, enjoy a photo of my dog at the start of a new week. 0150
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 09/01/2025FEZANA has an accessible, educational resource on 'The Gāthās and Yasna Haptaŋhāiti': fezana.org/education/ya... 000
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 13/11/2024The deadline for submission of PhD applications to be considered for the Moghtader-Mojdehi Scholarship is 15 January 2025. www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa... 010
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 25/10/2024In the past year, Peter Brown and Averil Cameron published their historiographical memoirs. Both historians' works and memoirs relate to Sasanian history, and the books also show the authors' relationship with modern Iran and the region in general. www.biblioiranica.info/two-memoirs/ 052
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 16/10/2024Have been looking forward to this. A celebration of Prof. Dame Averil Cameron's memoirs as a historian. The OCLA invites: Transitions: A Historian's Memoir with Peter Groves & John Haldon Levine Auditorium, Trinity College, @universityofoxford.bsky.social 12 Nov. @ 5pm & on Zoom 000
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 04/10/2024Having no design skills, I ask ChatGPT for a logo for @biblioiranica.bsky.social. Some are better, some worse, but spelling is always wrong. When told to correct spelling, it changes design. When complaining about design change & spelling, it promises to correct both. Logos created in that process: 110
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 30/09/2024When I season a shoulder or leg of lamb on a Sunday, I chop the remaining sage, thyme and rosemary and leave them out to dry. For the next couple of days, the house smells like the meadows and wild walks of my childhood. 030
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 27/09/2024Finished Fosse's 'Aliss at the Fire', easily the slowest 74 pages I've ever read. And I didn’t enjoy it. Now reading J.A. Baker's 'The Peregrine'. The writing is stunning, and Baker an unlikely author. I’m not a birdwatcher, but this is a fantastic read, and highly recommended by Werner Herzog. 010
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 17/09/2024Dammit! I deleted an earlier account for which I had received an invitation. That would have generated a much better number. This #6,079,744! is nothing. Reminds me of the days people (read: we) would post their (our) #Linux User number into e-mail signatures. 120
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 14/09/2024The 2nd Berkeley Workshop on Middle Persian Documents and Sealings 10–11 October 2024 Convened by Adam Benkato and Arash Zeini Poster designed by: A. Benkato 065
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 31/08/2024Vol. 15, no. 2 of the open access journal Entangled Religions is a special issue dedicated to the question of 'Religious Conversion in a Religiously Plural World'. www.biblioiranica.info/religious-co... 000
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 22/08/2024Think what you will of George Orwell's 'Essays', the complete set published by Everyman's Library. I can't get over the AI-generated summary that the customers 'also say the author is well-read and well-informed' 🤷🏻♂️ 020
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 19/08/2024The Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) relaunches ‘Manuscript Cultures’, an #OpenAccess peer-reviewed journal hosted by Hamburg University Press: journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup4/mc/index The new issue is online & submissions of articles are welcome: doi.org/10.15460/mc.... 020
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 18/08/2024I'm currently reading and tremendously enjoying Werner Herzog's memoire. It also exists in English translation. 030
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 16/08/2024I've taken up painting but still struggling with basics of #Sasanian history: 'Here is the battle scene depicting Shapur I's victory over the Roman army, where he captures Emperor Valerian. The image captures the intensity of the conflict and the moment of triumph for the Sasanian king'. 010
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com · 12/08/2024My book, published by @edinburghup.bsky.social in March 2020, provides a fresh edition of the Pahlavi translation (Zand) of an Old Avestan text known as Yasna Haptaŋhāiti. It reframes the Zand and Zoroastrian Middle Persian texts as work of late antique exegesis. (1/7) 1322