Persian Studies FAMES University of Cambridge

03/04/2026

Call for Paper
The 6th International Conference on Teaching Persian Language and Literature
Organised by the University of Cambridge in Collaboration with and hosted by University of British Columbia
22-24 April 2027
Vancouver, Canada
https://pips.ubc.ca/main-page/

12/03/2026

We invite you to join a hybrid lecture by our own Prof Saloumeh Gholami on "Monājāt and Muškil Āsān: A Comparative Study of Zoroastrian Oral Literature in India and Iran" on the 10th April 2026. https://iranianstudies.utoronto.ca/event/zoroastrian-ritual-practices-and-cross-border-challenges-in-iran-and-india/?fbclid=IwY2xjawQfydhleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF2STh1THlOVnlQazI1bHhnc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHlPLh2pKAxIvm6_oyKlW-_17905qMy_ZnNw6WwyzPkpMxr75jf55JDXns1P0_aem_IkO0Oc4b2nTiFwWEMDyVHg

The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studiesin collaboration with the Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America, the Ontario Zoroastrian Community Foundation, the Zoroastrian Society of Ontario, and the […]

01/01/2026

A New article titled “Linguistic Insights from a Historical Bilingual Letter: The Malati Dialect of Zoroastrian Dari (Behdīnī) in Yazd
Part 2. Language Contact”

By Prof. Saloumeh Gholami

01/01/2026

Judeo-Yazdi in Historical Perspective: A Comparative Examination with Zoroastrian Dari in Yazd
By our own Prof. Saloumeh Gholami

https://brill.com/view/journals/jjl/13/2/article-p141_2.xml?fbclid=IwY2xjawPDFn9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeqdjNKTE8-uIQL9Lzqqj2FObVyMOeLQjn4Kr4pOLRdh8p20WOsYpP6vE9Lc8_aem_IQCCopHEC3j27baivUdATw

Abstract In Yazd, the Jewish and Zoroastrian communities speak languages that belong to the Central Dialects of Iranian, while the Muslim majority speaks Yazdi Persian. This divergence raises two pivotal questions: Why do the languages of Yazd’s minorities differ from the majority language, and wh...

25/10/2025

Dear All,
Finally the international edition of "Persian for Dummies" written by Dr Mahbod Ghaffari, Associate Professor in Persian Language, Linguistics and Culture in the University of Cambridge and Dr Behrooz Mahmoodi Bakhtiari and Dr Faeghe Shahhoseini was published.
This is a self study book and designed to help readers gain enjoyment from Persian and offers specific examples and “real-life” scenarios on a variety of topics (from greetings to travelling) that they will almost certainly find useful.
Available on Amazon:
https://amzn.eu/d/fLfj5Mg

and Ingram:

https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=bTJdsZlYjZc55gSOcJLFy7wyR9uwIQfkHF1IRpuFi1s

22/09/2025

We are delighted to share that the 5th International Conference on Teaching Persian Language and Literature was successfully held on 18–19 September 2025!
Organised by Persian Studies at FAMES, University of Cambridge, in collaboration with the Chair of Iranian Studies, Yerevan State University, this year’s conference brought together 35 speakers from around the world, who presented their research across 8 dynamic panels followed by a round table and 2 workshops on Persian Learner Corpus and AI in Teaching Persian.
A heartfelt thank you to Yerevan State University for graciously hosting us in Armenia and for their warm hospitality.
گروه مطالعات فارسی دانشکده مطالعات آسیایی و خاورمیانه دانشگاه کمبریج با همکاری و میزبانی کرسی ایران‌شناسی دانشکده شرق‌شناسی دانشگاه دولتی ایروان پنجمین همایش بین‌المللی آموزش زبان و ادبیات فارسی را در روزهای ۲۷-۲۸ شهریور ۱۴۰۴ برابر با ۱۸-۱۹ سپتامبر ۲۰۲۵ با موفقیت برگزار کرد. در این همایش بیش از ۳۵ سخنران نتایج آخرین پژوهش‌های خود را در ۸ جلسه برای شماری از مدرسان، استادان، پژوهشگران و دانشجویان زبان و ادبیات فارسی و ایران‌شناسی ارائه کردند. پس از سخنرانی‌ها شرکت کنندگان در میزگرد آموزش زبان و دو کارگاه در مورد پیکره زبان آموز فارسی و استفاده از هوش مصنوعی در آموزش زبان فارسی شرکت کردند.
با سپاس بی‌کران از کرسی ایران‌شناسی دانشگاه دولتی ایروان و همه عوامل برگزارکننده و هماهنگ کننده این همایش که با پذیرایی گرمشان سخاوتمندانه میزبان این همایش بودند و دو روز به یادماندنی را برای شرکت‌کنندگان رقم زدند