August 13. On this date in 2011, the New York Times featured an article about Ehsan Yarshater, the former Bahá'í scholar who is Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Columbia University. The article also mentions Roy Mottahedeh, professor at Harvard University, who is son of the late Mildred Root Mottahedeh) and the first representative of the Bahá'í International Community to the United Nations who made a substantial fortune from her luxury porcelain business.

 

August 13. On this date in 2011, the New York Times featured an article about Ehsan Yarshater, the former Bahá'í scholar who is Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Columbia University. The article also mentions Roy Mottahedeh, professor at Harvard University, who is son of the late Mildred Root Mottahedeh) and the first representative of the Bahá'í International Community to the United Nations who made a substantial fortune from her luxury porcelain business.