The strain between the zoroastrian heritage and Islam in Iran: a new perspective

February 2023 Guillermo Martínez Rabadán Abstract Since the Islamic conquest of Iran persistent elements of Zoroastrian Iran have proved controversial for Islamic dogmas imposed by different dynasties until the eighteenth century. The Qayar regime and under the Pahlavi regime, a policy of secularization that promoted the Zoroastrian heritage tried to awake Islam. This policy would later be persecuted by the

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BEYOND THE ZIGZAG PATH. Where is the Friend’s Home?

BEYOND THE ZIGZAG PATH. Where is the Friend’s Home? (A.  Kiarostami, 1987), Thirty Years Later[1]. FARSHAD ZAHEDI[i] Universidad Carlos III de Madrid DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15366/secuencias2016.43-44.003 [i] FARSHAD ZAHEDI is a Doctor in Film History and a professor in the Department of Journalism and Audiovisual Communication at the Carlos III University of Madrid. Among his publication on Iranian cinema, the following stand

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