Getting Familiar with the Gathas: the relevance of the Gathas in modern times and a practical guide to everyday living
Dr. Ali Makki, the newly appointed Director of Education of the Zarathushtrian Assembly, California, will be leading a live interactive session at the Darbe Mehr on Saturday, July 30th, 2:00pm. We welcome you all to this informal discussion. Come share your own revelations as you hear Dr. Makki's thoughts and reflections. This is a chance to discover something new and ask those questions you've always wanted to ask...
Refreshments and snacks will be served.
About our Speaker: Dr. Ali Makki
Dr. Makki has been an active member of the Zoroastrian community in the United States and has served in various capacities at the California Zoroastrian Center (CZC) as a volunteer when he was a teenager and in official roles, including Election Committee for the Board of Trustees in 2014, President of the Board of Directors in 2016, and President of the Board of Trustees in 2019. He has also served as volunteer, advisor and speaker in various Zoroastrian congresses, and Zoroastrian associations in the United States, including CZC, IZA, ZAC, ZAPANJ, ZAMWI, and the Zarathushtrian Assembly. He has been a contributing author to various Zoroastrian publications (Parsiana, FEZANA Journal, Payk-e-Mehr, Payk-e-Kankash, Chehrehnama, etc.). As a student attending the University of Pennsylvania, he co-founded the Penn Zoroastrian Society and studied Avestan and Pahlavi along side his medical studies. Dr. Makki speaks, Persian, German, and several other Indo-European languages and has proficiency in Zoroastrian Dari, Gilaki, Mazandaran, Luri, and Kurdish. Dr. Makki translated the Pazand prayers to English and edited the English narrations on the audio CD ‘Namaj’ produced by the late Feri Demehri. He also served on an advisory board formed by the Tehran Mobed’s Council and Fravahar Publications in Iran for the re-publication of the late Mobed Azargoshasb’s Persian edition of the Gathas. He is currently in private practice as a pain specialist sub-specializing in Orofacial Pain and Headache Medicine at the Hoag Neurosciences Institute in Newport Beach, California and is an Associate Professor of Neurology at Loma Linda University School of Medicine.
