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The Pourdavoud Center is proud to be the academic partner for Ancient Iran and the Classical World, the newly opened exhibit at the Getty Villa location of the J. Paul…

The UCLA Archaeological Gazetteer of Iran, a Pourdavoud Center research initiative, has been featured in the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeological annual magazine publication, Backdirt. The article, co-written by Gazetteer…

The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World would like to express its deep appreciation to Ms. Nastaran Akhavan for her financial support of the UCLA Archaeological Gazetteer…

The Pourdavoud Center is pleased to share the announcement from the Ehsan Yarshater Center for Iranian Studies at Columbia University regarding the new volume of Encyclopaedia Iranica and other center…

The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World would like to express its deep gratitude to Dr. Haleh Emrani and the Gramian-Emrani Foundation for their financial support of…

Iran and the Ancient World Under the directorship of Professor M. Rahim Shayegan, the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World at UCLA has established a series, Iran…

The UCLA Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World is pleased to announce the awarding of the Morvarid Guiv Graduate Fellowship in Zoroastrian Studies. This fellowship was established…

Dear colleagues and friends of the UCLA campus, With the support of campus leadership, the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies launched an emergency effort to respond to the Taliban…

Call for Applications for the 2021-22 Morvarid Guiv Graduate Fellowship in Zoroastrian Studies The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World announces a call for applications for the…

The Yarshater Center is pleased to announce that Volume XVI of Columbia University’s Encyclopaedia Iranica has now been published by Brill. (https://brill.com/flyer/title/61057) This bound volume replaces the older unbound fascicles XVI.1 through XVI.6…