Barzin and Manoochehr Javid - Janhanshah Javid's father - both worked for the NIOC Public Relations Office in Abadan. The third person in the photo is Peter Avery, the eminent Cambridge University scholar of Persian, on a visit from London.
Barzin and Manoochehr Javid - Janhanshah Javid's father - both worked for the NIOC Public Relations Office in Abadan. The third person in the photo is Peter Avery, the eminent Cambridge University scholar of Persian, on a visit from London.
Peter Avery
by Saeed Barzin on Wed Nov 24, 2010 03:46 AM PSTThe third person in the photo is Peter Avery, the eminent Cambridge University scholar of Persian whose selected works include:
The Cambridge History of Iran (1991)
The Speech of the Birds (1998)
The Collected Lyrics of Hafiz of Shiraz (2007).
Thanks to Farhang Jahanpour (of Oxford University) who knew Avery in those years and brought the fact to my attention.