Firoza Punthakey Mistree

Firoza Punthakey Mistree is co-editor with Pheroza Godrej of A Zoroastrian Tapestry: art, religion and culture. She works for Zoroastrian Studies, Mumbai and also teaches Zoroastrianism to school children to extend their understanding of the religion and instil a sense of pride in their heritage.

She co-curated the SOAS  exhibition, The Everlasting Flame Zoroastrianism in history and imagination in 2013 in London and has since co-curated an exhibition entitled Across Oceans and Flowing Silks from Canton to Mumbai 18th-20th centuries, for the National Gallery of Modern Art, in Mumbai. Firoza is presently working on an exhibition on the Costumes and Textiles of the Parsi and  Iranian Zoroastrian community, for the East West Centre Hawaii which will be exhibited in October 2015.

Her primary research interest is the oral history of the Yazdi Zoroastrians. She has travelled widely in Iran and has published work on Yazdi costumes and textiles.