{"id":2336,"date":"2024-05-31T12:59:35","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T12:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/?page_id=2336"},"modified":"2025-09-30T19:57:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T19:57:31","slug":"about-authors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/en\/about-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"About Authors and Collaborators"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2336\" class=\"elementor elementor-2336\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d75971b e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"d75971b\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-319c3c8 ahura-dark-mode-filter-texts-no elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"319c3c8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- Load Tailwind & Font Awesome -->\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/cdn.tailwindcss.com\"><\/script>\r\n<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https:\/\/cdnjs.cloudflare.com\/ajax\/libs\/font-awesome\/5.15.3\/css\/all.min.css\">\r\n\r\n<style>\r\n  .collapse { display: none; }\r\n  \/* Force ALL author images to be circular and sized consistently *\/\r\n  .author img{\r\n    width: 6rem;           \/* equals Tailwind w-24 *\/\r\n    height: 6rem;          \/* equals Tailwind h-24 *\/\r\n    border-radius: 9999px !important; \/* fully rounded, override theme *\/\r\n    object-fit: cover;     \/* keeps face centered\/cropped nicely *\/\r\n    display: block;\r\n  }\r\n<\/style>\r\n\r\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\r\n  <div class=\"container mx-auto py-10\">\r\n\r\n    <div>\r\n      <div class=\"flex items-center mb-6\">\r\n        <div class=\"border-l-4 border-red-500 h-6\"><\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"ml-2\"><\/div>\r\n        <h2 class=\"text-xl font-bold\">About Authors and Collaborators<\/h2>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n\r\n      <div class=\"grid grid-cols-1 md:grid-cols-2 gap-8\">\r\n        <div class=\"author flex flex-col items-start mb-10\">\r\n          <div class=\"flex items-center\">\r\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Layer-36-150x150-1.webp\" alt=\"Nima Asefi\" class=\"mr-4\">\r\n            <div>\r\n              <h3 class=\"text-lg font-semibold\">Nima Asefi<\/h3>\r\n              <p class=\"text-gray-600\">Editor-in-chief and Author<\/p>\r\n              <button class=\"mt-2 flex items-center text-gray-600 focus:outline-none\" onclick=\"toggleAbout(this)\">\r\n                <span>about author<\/span>\r\n                <i class=\"fas fa-chevron-down mr-2\"><\/i>\r\n              <\/button>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n          <div class=\"collapse mt-4 text-gray-600 text-justify\">\r\n            <p>Nima Asefi is a Ph.D. student in ancient Iranian languages at the Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran. In 2022, he began his studies as a guest researcher at Leiden University. His research interests include Middle and Early New Persian, as well as the history of Iran in late antiquity. His dissertation focuses on several Middle Persian documents from the first century after the Sasanian, named the Hastijan's Pahlavi Archive. Since January 2023, he has been working on the project \"A City of Many Cities: Ctesiphon, Baghdad, and the Memory of the Abandoned Past in Late Antique and Early Islamic Iraq,\" led by Dr. Khodadad Rezakhani. He is the founder and director of Azhyar association of Ancient Iranian Languages.<\/p>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"author flex flex-col items-start mb-10\">\r\n          <div class=\"flex items-center\">\r\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/mirzaee-150x150-1.webp\" alt=\"Masoud Yousefzad\" class=\"mr-4\">\r\n            <div>\r\n              <h3 class=\"text-lg font-semibold\">Mohammad Mirzaee<\/h3>\r\n              <p class=\"text-gray-600\">Editor-in-chief and Author<\/p>\r\n              <button class=\"mt-2 flex items-center text-gray-600 focus:outline-none\" onclick=\"toggleAbout(this)\">\r\n                <span>about author<\/span>\r\n                <i class=\"fas fa-chevron-down mr-2\"><\/i>\r\n              <\/button>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n          <div class=\"collapse mt-4 text-gray-600 text-justify\">\r\n            <p>A Ph.D. candidate in Iranian Studies at the University of Hamburg. His research focuses on historical linguistics, Persian and Mazandarani literature and languages. He earned his Master of Arts from the University of Tehran (2017-2020), focusing research on the historical grammar and phonology of the Tabari language. Meanwhile, he attends an Erasmus+ Fellowship in Bologna under Prof. Dr. Panaino (2020). His current research as a Ph.D. candidate centers on a comprehensive survey of Mazandarani poems attributed to Amir Pazevari.<\/p>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"author flex flex-col items-start mb-10\">\r\n          <div class=\"flex items-center\">\r\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Hosein_Sheikh.webp\" alt=\"Dr. Hossein Sheikh\" class=\"mr-4\">\r\n            <div>\r\n              <h3 class=\"text-lg font-semibold\">Dr. Hossein Sheikh<\/h3>\r\n              <p class=\"text-gray-600\">Editor<\/p>\r\n              <button class=\"mt-2 flex items-center text-gray-600 focus:outline-none\" onclick=\"toggleAbout(this)\">\r\n                <span>about author<\/span>\r\n                <i class=\"fas fa-chevron-down mr-2\"><\/i>\r\n              <\/button>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n          <div class=\"collapse mt-4 text-gray-600 text-justify\">\r\n            <p>Hossein Sheikh, Ph.D (2017), Georg-August University, G\u00f6ttingen, is an assistant professor of History and Iranian Studies at the University of Isfahan. He has published articles on, history and legal practice in ancient Iran and Central Asia, particularly on legal terminology and slavery.<\/p>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"author flex flex-col items-start mb-10\">\r\n          <div class=\"flex items-center\">\r\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mehrak_Ali_Sabounchi.webp\" alt=\"Dr. Mehrak-Ali Sabounchi\" class=\"mr-4\">\r\n            <div>\r\n              <h3 class=\"text-lg font-semibold\">Dr. Mehrak-Ali Sabounchi<\/h3>\r\n              <p class=\"text-gray-600\">Editor<\/p>\r\n              <button class=\"mt-2 flex items-center text-gray-600 focus:outline-none\" onclick=\"toggleAbout(this)\">\r\n                <span>about author<\/span>\r\n                <i class=\"fas fa-chevron-down mr-2\"><\/i>\r\n              <\/button>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n          <div class=\"collapse mt-4 text-gray-600 text-justify\">\r\n            <p>Mehrak-Ali Sabounchi holds a MA and PhD in Ancient Iranian Culture and languages, and earned a BA in Persian Language and Literature. His master's thesis is titled \"Comparative Study of the Structure of the Avestan Text of Khorshid-Niyayesh, Mehr-Niyayesh, and Atash-Niyayesh and their Middle Persian Translation Version\" (2013) and his Ph.D. thesis is titled \"Word Order in Some Manichean Sogdian Prose Texts (The Story of Two Snakes, Sogdian Tales, Manichean Cosmogony, The Sermon of The Light Nous, The Sermon of The Soul, Xw\u0101stw\u0101n\u012bft)\" (2019). In the realm of Iranian language studies, his research is primarily centered on the Sogdian language. He has authored articles on this language and is actively involved in teaching it. In the domain of culture and mythology, his expertise lies in Iranian demonology. In 2019, he published the book The Treatise of a Hundred Demons (Res\u00e2le-ye Sad Div). Additionally, another book on demonology titled Div\u00e2n-e Div (Encyclopaedia of Iranian demons) is set to be released soon. Focusing on Iranian culture and literature, he has published two books under the titles The Mouse and the Cat (Res\u00e2le-ye Mush va Gorbeh) concerning Obeid Zakani's work in 2018, and Love and Lovers (Res\u00e2le-ye `Eshq va `\u00c2sheqi) showcasing twenty love stories of Persian literature in 2022. Moreover, he places great emphasis on educating children and adolescents about Iranian mythology. Currently, he is researching and working on the project \"Collection of Mythological History of Iran for Teenagers\" with two published volumes: Volume 1: One was and one was not, Hormozd was and Ahriman was not (The Story of Creation) (2023) and Volume 2: The Existence of the Gods and the Non-Existence of the Demons (The Creatures of Light and Darkness) (2024).<\/p>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"author flex flex-col items-start mb-10\">\r\n          <div class=\"flex items-center\">\r\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/photo_%DB%B2%DB%B0%DB%B2%DB%B4-%DB%B0%DB%B5-%DB%B1%DB%B5_%DB%B2%DB%B3-%DB%B4%DB%B5-%DB%B1%DB%B7.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Yaser Malekzadeh\" class=\"mr-4\">\r\n            <div>\r\n              <h3 class=\"text-lg font-semibold\">Dr. Yaser Malekzadeh<\/h3>\r\n              <p class=\"text-gray-600\">Editor<\/p>\r\n              <button class=\"mt-2 flex items-center text-gray-600 focus:outline-none\" onclick=\"toggleAbout(this)\">\r\n                <span>about author<\/span>\r\n                <i class=\"fas fa-chevron-down mr-2\"><\/i>\r\n              <\/button>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n          <div class=\"collapse mt-4 text-gray-600 text-justify\">\r\n            <p>Yaser Malekzadeh earned his Ph.D. in Pre-Islamic Iran History from Tehran University in 2017. Since 2020, he has been a visiting researcher at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, engaging in both research and teaching. His scholarly interests encompass comparative literature, identity, memory, cultural history, historiography, and historical geography in Pre-Islamic Iran. For access to his academic articles, visit his profile on https:\/\/mashhad.academia.edu\/YaserMalekzadeh.<\/p>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"author flex flex-col items-start mb-10\">\r\n          <div class=\"flex items-center\">\r\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Khodadad-Rezakhani.webp\" alt=\"Dr. Khodadad Rezakhani\" class=\"mr-4\">\r\n            <div>\r\n              <h3 class=\"text-lg font-semibold\">Dr. Khodadad Rezakhani<\/h3>\r\n              <p class=\"text-gray-600\">Editor<\/p>\r\n              <button class=\"mt-2 flex items-center text-gray-600 focus:outline-none\" onclick=\"toggleAbout(this)\">\r\n                <span>about author<\/span>\r\n                <i class=\"fas fa-chevron-down mr-2\"><\/i>\r\n              <\/button>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n          <div class=\"collapse mt-4 text-gray-600 text-justify\">\r\n            <p>Khodadad Rezakhani is a historian of late antique and early medieval Near East at Leiden, concentrating on the history of the Sasanian and early Islamic empires. He currently leads the project A City of Many Cities: Ctesiphon and Baghdad, funded by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, studying the transition period between the Sasanian and the Abbasid period from the viewpoint of the history of the Ctesiphon city complex. He is the author of \"ReOrienting the Sasanins: East Iran in Late Antiquity\" (Edinburgh UP, 2017) and Upcoming co-edited \u201cCompanion to War in Ancient Iran (2024)\u201d.<\/p>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"author flex flex-col items-start mb-10\">\r\n          <div class=\"flex items-center\">\r\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Nima-Jamali.webp\" alt=\"Nima Jamali\" class=\"mr-4\">\r\n            <div>\r\n              <h3 class=\"text-lg font-semibold\">Nima Jamali<\/h3>\r\n              <p class=\"text-gray-600\">Editor<\/p>\r\n              <button class=\"mt-2 flex items-center text-gray-600 focus:outline-none\" onclick=\"toggleAbout(this)\">\r\n                <span>about author<\/span>\r\n                <i class=\"fas fa-chevron-down mr-2\"><\/i>\r\n              <\/button>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n          <div class=\"collapse mt-4 text-gray-600 text-justify\">\r\n            <p>Nima Jamali is a FRQSC (B3Z) postdoctoral research fellow at NELC, The University of Chicago. He earned his Ph.D. in 2021 from the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations (NMC) at the University of Toronto. His dissertation was a comparative study of the interactions among Zoroastrian, Jewish, and Roman legal systems during the 7th and 8th centuries. It was based on an edition, commentary, and English translation of a Syriac legal text, I\u0161\u014d\u201b-bo\u1e33t\u2019s Corpus Juris. His primary focus is on the history of law and historical linguistics of the Middle East and the Mediterranean world in late antiquity. In his current position, he is working on a monograph titled Statute of Limitations: A History of Legal Thought and Tradition in the Church of The East (480\u2013850 CE). His other research interests include early modern legal archives, including the institution of Daftar-kh\u0101neh and its role in modern Iranian urbanism and everyday life. Additionally, he is investigating the perceptions of  \"the past\" among early modern Iranian intellectuals and how it shaped their idea of self, Iranian identity, and political ideals.\r\n\r\nHis articles have appeared in several journals, including \"The Foundations of Legal Thinking in the Church of the East during the Fifth and Sixth Centuries CE\" and \"N\u0101mag, a Brief Study on its Etymology and Semantics\" in Iran Namag; \"A Note on a Lacuna in I\u0161\u014d\u2019-bokt Corpus Juris: Greek Philosophy in Eastern Syriac Legal Literature,\" and \"The Sixth Book of I\u0161\u014d\u2019-bokt Corpus Juris, Authority, Enforcement, and Language\" in the Journal of the Canadian Society of Syriac Studies; \"Semitic Sources in Sasanian Studies and Vice Versa: One New Approach\" inGozaresh-e Miras; and \"From Inshushinak to Jackson Pollock, Continuity and Transformation, Decline and Survival in E. Yarshater\u2019s Thinking\" in Herfe: Honarmand.<\/p>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"author flex flex-col items-start mb-10\">\r\n          <div class=\"flex items-center\">\r\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Bahram-Roshanzamir.webp\" alt=\"Bahram Roshanzamir\" class=\"mr-4\">\r\n            <div>\r\n              <h3 class=\"text-lg font-semibold\">Bahram Roshanzamir<\/h3>\r\n              <p class=\"text-gray-600\">Editor<\/p>\r\n              <button class=\"mt-2 flex items-center text-gray-600 focus:outline-none\" onclick=\"toggleAbout(this)\">\r\n                <span>about author<\/span>\r\n                <i class=\"fas fa-chevron-down mr-2\"><\/i>\r\n              <\/button>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n          <div class=\"collapse mt-4 text-gray-600 text-justify\">\r\n            <p>Bahram Roshan Zamir is a Ph.D. student in the History of the late antique Near East at the \u00c9cole Pratique des Hautes \u00c9tudes, Sciences religieuses, Paris. Since 2021, he began his studies at the Laboratoire d'\u00e9tudes sur les monoth\u00e9ismes, CNRS. His dissertation focuses on the representation of Zoroastrianism under Sasanians in the Syriac martyr acts of Iran. He has written several articles on the representation of Iran and Iranians in the Greek-Roman-Christian sources.<\/p>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"author flex flex-col items-start mb-10\">\r\n          <div class=\"flex items-center\">\r\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Elahe-Amirpour.webp\" alt=\"Elahe Amirpour\" class=\"mr-4\">\r\n            <div>\r\n              <h3 class=\"text-lg font-semibold\">Elahe Amirpour<\/h3>\r\n              <p class=\"text-gray-600\">Editor<\/p>\r\n              <button class=\"mt-2 flex items-center text-gray-600 focus:outline-none\" onclick=\"toggleAbout(this)\">\r\n                <span>about author<\/span>\r\n                <i class=\"fas fa-chevron-down mr-2\"><\/i>\r\n              <\/button>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n          <div class=\"collapse mt-4 text-gray-600 text-justify\">\r\n            <p>Elahe Amirpour, currently pursuing an MA in Manuscript Cultures at Hamburg University, Germany (2023-2024), completed her first MA in Iranian Old Languages and Cultures at Tehran in 2018. Her research is multifaceted, with a primary focus on the evolution of the Persian language, particularly during the formative period of New Persian.\r\n\r\nIn addition to her linguistic inquiries, Elahe delves into the religious history of the Zoroastrian community in Sistan following the Islamic invasion, aiming to understand how this pivotal historical event influenced their language and culture.\r\n\r\nElahe's research also encompasses the study of early translations of the Quran, specifically the \"Quran Quds,\" which exhibit vernacular features reflecting the linguistic characteristics of Zoroastrian communities in Sistan.\r\n\r\nFurthermore, Elahe explores the language of the Iranian Jewish community, recognizing its significant role in shaping the development of New Persian. By examining the linguistic contributions of these diverse religious communities, her research provides valuable insights into the formation of the Persian language and the socio-cultural fabric of Iran's history.<\/p>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"author flex flex-col items-start mb-10\">\r\n          <div class=\"flex items-center\">\r\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Saeede-Amirpoor-Saeed.webp\" alt=\"Saeedeh Amirpoursaeed\" class=\"mr-4\">\r\n            <div>\r\n              <h3 class=\"text-lg font-semibold\">Saeedeh Amirpoursaeed<\/h3>\r\n              <p class=\"text-gray-600\">Editor<\/p>\r\n              <button class=\"mt-2 flex items-center text-gray-600 focus:outline-none\" onclick=\"toggleAbout(this)\">\r\n                <span>about author<\/span>\r\n                <i class=\"fas fa-chevron-down mr-2\"><\/i>\r\n              <\/button>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n          <div class=\"collapse mt-4 text-gray-600 text-justify\">\r\n            <p>Saeedeh Amirpoursaeed holds a bachelor's degree in English Literature and a master's degree in Ancient Iranian Languages from Shiraz University. She has conducted research in the field of documenting local dialects. Amirpoursaeed's primary focus is studying and analysing the Yashts, Vendidad and examining Avesta manuscripts, particularly those written during the Qajar era.<\/p>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"author flex flex-col items-start mb-10\">\r\n          <div class=\"flex items-center\">\r\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mohammad-Keshavarz.webp\" alt=\"Mohammad Keshavarz Divkolaee\" class=\"mr-4\">\r\n            <div>\r\n              <h3 class=\"text-lg font-semibold\">Mohammad Keshavarz Divkolaee<\/h3>\r\n              <p class=\"text-gray-600\">Editor<\/p>\r\n              <button class=\"mt-2 flex items-center text-gray-600 focus:outline-none\" onclick=\"toggleAbout(this)\">\r\n                <span>about author<\/span>\r\n                <i class=\"fas fa-chevron-down mr-2\"><\/i>\r\n              <\/button>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n          <div class=\"collapse mt-4 text-gray-600 text-justify\">\r\n            <p>Mohammad Keshavarz Divkolaee. His scientific activities focus on archaeological, architectural, and chemical analysis of constituent materials at the sites in the Savadkooh region of Mazandaran province, in the central Alborz Mountains. he completed studies in the field of restoration and conservation of historic buildings in 2007-2011. In 2021,as well, he completed bachelor's and master's degrees in the technologies for the protection of cultural heritage at Sapienza University of Rome. He officially became a member of the ISMEO\u2013 The International Association for Mediterranean and Oriental Studies in Rome, Italy and he has been officially a member of the ICTA- ICOMOS- Iranian scientific committee on Troglodyte architecture.<\/p>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"author flex flex-col items-start mb-10\">\r\n          <div class=\"flex items-center\">\r\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Moosakhani.webp\" alt=\"Shahrbanoo Moosakhani\" class=\"mr-4\">\r\n            <div>\r\n              <h3 class=\"text-lg font-semibold\">Shahrbanoo Moosakhani<\/h3>\r\n              <p class=\"text-gray-600\">Editor<\/p>\r\n              <button class=\"mt-2 flex items-center text-gray-600 focus:outline-none\" onclick=\"toggleAbout(this)\">\r\n                <span>about author<\/span>\r\n                <i class=\"fas fa-chevron-down mr-2\"><\/i>\r\n              <\/button>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n          <div class=\"collapse mt-4 text-gray-600 text-justify\">\r\n            <p>Shahrbanoo Moosakhani is a researcher in Ancient Iranian History and a graduate with a Master\u2019s degree in Ancient Iranian History from the University of Tehran. Her research primarily focuses on the religious, social, and environmental interactions of the Sasanian era.\r\nShe has published several articles, including \u201cThe Position of Women in National Narratives,\u201d \u201cZoroastrians\u2019 Attitudes toward Animals,\u201d and \u201cThe Social Situation of the Christians of the Eastern Church in Relation to the Sassanid Court (338\u2013421 AD).\u201d These works examine the influence of historical narratives on social and religious identities. Shahrbanoo Moosakhani has been honored with the Shapoorji Pallonji Scholarship in Zoroastrian Studies and the International Postgraduate Scholarship at SOAS, which attest to her commitment to advancing the field of Ancient Iranian Studies.<\/p>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"author flex flex-col items-start mb-10\">\r\n          <div class=\"flex items-center\">\r\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/shayan-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"Shayan Javadi\" class=\"mr-4\">\r\n            <div>\r\n              <h3 class=\"text-lg font-semibold\">Shayan Javadi<\/h3>\r\n              <p class=\"text-gray-600\">Editor<\/p>\r\n              <button class=\"mt-2 flex items-center text-gray-600 focus:outline-none\" onclick=\"toggleAbout(this)\">\r\n                <span>about author<\/span>\r\n                <i class=\"fas fa-chevron-down mr-2\"><\/i>\r\n              <\/button>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n          <div class=\"collapse mt-4 text-gray-600 text-justify\">\r\n            <p>Shayan Javadi is a literary translator and holds a master's degree in Ancient Iranian History from Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran. He is an Ossetologist and has worked on the national epics of the Ossetian people and the Ossetian religion for more than fourteen years. His other interests include Icelandic and Spanish.<\/p>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"author flex flex-col items-start mb-10\">\r\n          <div class=\"flex items-center\">\r\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Saba_Madhani.webp\" alt=\"Saba Madhani\" class=\"mr-4\">\r\n            <div>\r\n              <h3 class=\"text-lg font-semibold\">Saba Madhani<\/h3>\r\n              <p class=\"text-gray-600\">Editor<\/p>\r\n              <button class=\"mt-2 flex items-center text-gray-600 focus:outline-none\" onclick=\"toggleAbout(this)\">\r\n                <span>about author<\/span>\r\n                <i class=\"fas fa-chevron-down mr-2\"><\/i>\r\n              <\/button>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n          <div class=\"collapse mt-4 text-gray-600 text-justify\">\r\n            <p>Graduate of the Master of Archaeology from the University of Tehran and a PhD student in Archaeology, Prehistory, Tarbiat Modares University. Main research area: Paleolithic Iran and Southwest Asia, focusing on stone tools and experimental archaeology. Currently, member of the joint Iran-France excavation team at the Paleolithic cave of Qaleh Kurd in Qazvin, led by Dr. Hamed Vahdati Nasab and Gilles Berillon.<\/p>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"author flex flex-col items-start mb-10\">\r\n          <div class=\"flex items-center\">\r\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Afshin-Aryanpur.webp\" alt=\"Afshin Aryanpur\" class=\"mr-4\">\r\n            <div>\r\n              <h3 class=\"text-lg font-semibold\">Afshin Aryanpur<\/h3>\r\n              <p class=\"text-gray-600\">Editor<\/p>\r\n              <button class=\"mt-2 flex items-center text-gray-600 focus:outline-none\" onclick=\"toggleAbout(this)\">\r\n                <span>about author<\/span>\r\n                <i class=\"fas fa-chevron-down mr-2\"><\/i>\r\n              <\/button>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n          <div class=\"collapse mt-4 text-gray-600 text-justify\">\r\n            <p><\/p>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"author flex flex-col items-start mb-10\">\r\n          <div class=\"flex items-center\">\r\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/photo_2024-07-24_10-35-02-150x150-1.webp\" alt=\"Alireza Arabani\" class=\"mr-4\">\r\n            <div>\r\n              <h3 class=\"text-lg font-semibold\">Alireza Arabani<\/h3>\r\n              <p class=\"text-gray-600\">Editor<\/p>\r\n              <button class=\"mt-2 flex items-center text-gray-600 focus:outline-none\" onclick=\"toggleAbout(this)\">\r\n                <span>about author<\/span>\r\n                <i class=\"fas fa-chevron-down mr-2\"><\/i>\r\n              <\/button>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n          <div class=\"collapse mt-4 text-gray-600 text-justify\">\r\n            <p>Alireza Arabani holds an M.A. in Ancient Iranian Languages from the Shahid Beheshti University of Tehran. His M.A. thesis was entitled \"Explanation and Analysis of the Structure of the Cosmos in Manichaean Cosmology Based on Middle Persian, Parthian, and Sogdian Texts\" (September 1401), which won the Fravahr Award in March 1402. His field of research is working on Middle Iranian Manichaean manuscripts, Manichaean cosmology, and hymnology. His paper entitled \"The Four Walls and Three Moats in Manichaean Cosmology\" was presented at the Mani in Cambridge 3 Symposium (May 2024).<\/p>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"author flex flex-col items-start mb-10\">\r\n          <div class=\"flex items-center\">\r\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Untitled-1.webp\" alt=\"Mostafa Nabavi Chashmi\" class=\"mr-4\">\r\n            <div>\r\n              <h3 class=\"text-lg font-semibold\">Mostafa Nabavi Chashmi<\/h3>\r\n              <p class=\"text-gray-600\">Editor<\/p>\r\n              <button class=\"mt-2 flex items-center text-gray-600 focus:outline-none\" onclick=\"toggleAbout(this)\">\r\n                <span>about author<\/span>\r\n                <i class=\"fas fa-chevron-down mr-2\"><\/i>\r\n              <\/button>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n          <div class=\"collapse mt-4 text-gray-600 text-justify\">\r\n            <p>Mostafa Nabavi Chashmi holds a master\u2019s degree in archaeology from the University of Tehran and is currently a PhD student at the University of Mazandaran. He focuses on the socio-political developments of the Sasanian and post-Sasanian periods, particularly in the northern regions of Iran and the Alborz Mountains. His academic and fieldwork experience includes participation in the excavation of the Mersin Chal cemetery in 2021, led by Dr. Ata Hassanpour, and again in 2022, led by Dr. Mohammad Reza Nemati. Additionally, he contributed to two excavation seasons in 2023 and 2024 at the Zel Hastijan cave site, led by Dr. Mohammad Reza Nemati.<\/p>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"author flex flex-col items-start mb-10\">\r\n          <div class=\"flex items-center\">\r\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ancientirannews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Meysam-Saebi.webp\" alt=\"Meysam Saebi\" class=\"mr-4\">\r\n            <div>\r\n              <h3 class=\"text-lg font-semibold\">Meysam Saebi<\/h3>\r\n              <p class=\"text-gray-600\">Editor<\/p>\r\n              <button class=\"mt-2 flex items-center text-gray-600 focus:outline-none\" onclick=\"toggleAbout(this)\">\r\n                <span>about<\/span>\r\n                <i class=\"fas fa-chevron-down mr-2\"><\/i>\r\n              <\/button>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n          <\/div>\r\n          <div class=\"collapse mt-4 text-gray-600 text-justify\">\r\n            <p>Meysam Saebi is a Shapoorji Pallonji scholar of Zoroastrianism and a postgraduate student in Religions and Philosophies at the SOAS, University of London. He graduated with a master's degree in Ancient Iranian Languages and a bachelor's degree in Archaeology from the University of Tehran. 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