>> because very little of it is relevant to the modern world....
>> there isn't much interest in greek or spanish history either
>.
>> a bit like islamists....
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>List of Iranian women
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>The women's movement in modern Iran is nearly 150 years old.
>The women's movement in modern Iran is nearly 150 years old.
>
>The terms Persian women or Iranian women, used interchangeably, refer
>to women of Iran (known as Persia outside Iran until 1935).
>
>Notice: As one person may have contributed to more than one field,
>they can be categorized in multiple areas.
>Contents
>[hide]
>
> * 1 Nobel laureates and nominees
> * 2 Scientists and Engineers
> * 3 Academics
> * 4 Authors and poets
> * 5 Visual Art
> * 6 Artists
> * 7 Athletes
> * 8 Politicians
> * 9 Royalty
> * 10 Activists
> * 11 In the news
> * 12 Others
> * 13 References
> * 14 See also
>
>[edit] Nobel laureates and nominees
>
> * Shirin Ebadi, 2003 Nobel Laureate. (Peace)
> * Simin Behbahani, 1997 Nobel prize Nominee. (Literature)
>
>[edit] Scientists and Engineers
>
> * Fariba Adelkhah, Director of Research at Centre for
>International Studies and Research, France. [1]
> * Anousheh Ansari, First female space tourist, leading
>telecommunication entrepreneur, and namesake of the X Prize
> * Mina Bissell, Director of UC Berkeley Life Sciences Division.
>[2]
> * Mariam Kamkar, Head of Computer and Information Science
>Department, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden. [3]
> * Majgan Mahjoub, Director of Zooarchaeology Research Center,
>National Museum of Iran, researcher at museum of natural history at
>Paris. [4]
> * Patricia L. Mokhtarian, Associate Director, Institute of
>Transportation Studies, UC Davis. [5]
> * Simin Nikbin Meydani, Senior Scientist and Director at Tufts
>University. [6]
> * Manijeh Razeghi, Director, Center for Quantum Devices,
>Northwestern University. [7]
> * Reihaneh Safavi-Naini, Cryptographer, professor of computer
>science, and head of Telecommunications and Information Technology
>Research Institute at University of Wollongong
> * Nahid Shahmehri, Director of the Laboratory for Intelligent
>Information, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden. [8]
> * Azadeh Tabazadeh, Stanford University scientist from NASA. [9]
>Article about her in TIME magazine
> * Saba Valadkhan, American Association for the Advancement of
>Science Young scientist award
> * Maryam Mirzakhani, Mathematician
> * Roya Maboudian, Professor of Chemical Engineering at UC Berkeley
> * Mina Farr, Founder, President and Chief Technology Officer of
>Vivid Medical Inc. holder of 20 U.S. and International patents in
>Optics
> * Shirin Dehghan, CEO of Arieso, winner of the 2006 Blackberry
>Women and Technology Awards
>
>[edit] Academics
>
> * Janet Afary, Historian.
> * Shirin Ebadi, Lawyer, lecturer at Tehran University (2003 Nobel
>Laureate).
> * Mehrangiz Kar, Lawyer, fellow at Harvard University.
> * Jaleh Amouzgar, Iranologist, Professor of Tehran University.
> * Lady Amin (Banoo Amin), Jurisprudent and theologian.
> * Elaheh Koulaei, Professor of Political sciences, Faculty of Law
>and Political Sciences, Tehran University
> * Fatemeh Keshavarz-Karamustafa, Chair of Asian and Near Eastern
>Languages and Literature Department, Professor of Persian and
>Comparative Literature, Washington University in St. Louis
> * Camila Batmanghelidjh, Psychotherapist.
> * Farideh Farhi, Independent Scholar and an Adjunct Professor of
>Political Science at University of Hawai'i, M?noa
> * Farzaneh Milani, Director of Studies in Women and Gender and
>Professor of Persian and Women Studies at the University of Virginia
>in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA [10]
> * Nayereh Tohidi, Professor and Chair of the Women's Studies
>Department at California State University, Northridge and Research
>Associate at the Center for Near Eastern Studies at UCLA, USA [11]
> * noosheen shahandeh,
> * Afsaneh Najmabadi, Professor of History and of Studies of Women,
>Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University.
> * Laudan Nooshin, Musicologist and Senior Lecturer at City
>University of London [12]
> * Golbarg Bashi
> * Fariba Zarinebaf, Lecturer and Iran expert in the Department of
>History of Northwestern University, Illinois, USA [13]
> * Noushafarin Ansari, Professor at University Of Tehran, Secretary
>General of Children's Book Council Of Iran
> * Simin Karimi, Linguist, University of Arizona [14]
>
>[edit] Authors and poets
>
> * Mina Assadi, Famous poet and author, winner of the Hellman/
>Hammett awards (human Rights Watch) in New York in the year of 1996
> * Sanaz Nikaein, Poet, Poetic Achievement Of The Year Award 2000,
>Human Rights Activist
> * Mahshid Amirshahi, Novelist
> * Farzaneh Aghaeipour, Playwright and novelist
> * Mastoureh Ardalan, Poet
> * Simin Behbahani, Poet and 1997 Nobel prize nominee.
> * Simin Daneshvar, Academic, novelist and translator of literary
>texts from several languages into Persian
> * Parvin E'tesami, Poet (classical)
> * Forough Farrokhzad, Poet (modern)
> * Rabe'e Ghazdari, Poet
> * Roya Hakakian, Writer and poet
> * Sheema Kalbasi, Poet
> * Justine Harun-Mahdavi, German-Iranian writer.
> * Rosie Malek-Yonan, Author, actor and director. Author of THE
>CRIMSON FIELD
> * Mahsati, Medieval poet
> * Azadeh Moaveni, Writer and journalist
> * Shahrnush Parsipur, Novelist
> * Zoya Pirzad, Novelist and winner of Hushang Golshiri Award
> * Tahereh Qorrat Al-'Ayn, Poet, philosopher and theologist;
>Seventeenth disciple or Letter of the Living of the Báb (mid 19th
>century)
> * Mahasti Shahrokhi, Novelist
> * Farzaneh Khojandi, Tajik poet
> * Golrokhsar Safi Eva, National poet of Tajikistan
> * Moniru Ravanipur, Writer
> * Shokooh Mirzadegi, Novelist, poet and social reformer
>
>[edit] Visual Art
>
> * Iran Darrudi, Painter
> * Mokarrameh Ghanbari, Painter
> * Mansooreh Hosseini Painter
> * Noreen Motamed, Painter
> * Guity Novin, Painter, Graphic artist and the founder of
>Transpressionism movement in painting
> * Farah Notash Painter
> * Behjat Sadr Painter
>
>[edit] Artists
>Simin Daneshvar, Iranian novelist and author of Savushun
>Simin Daneshvar, Iranian novelist and author of Savushun
>
> * Lily Afshar, World class guitarist
> * nadia bjorlin
> * Hengameh Mofid, Film and theatre actress, director,Dramatist and
>University professor
> * Farzaneh Kaboli, a leader in the Iranian Folkloric and National
>Dance Art
> * Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Actress, Singer/Songwriter, Human Rights
>Campaigner
> * Shohreh Aghdashloo, Actress 2003 Oscar nominee for House of Sand
>and Fog
> * Pegah Anvarian, Fashion Designer in L.A..
> * Pegah Ahangarani, Actress and winner of Best Actress Award, 23rd
>Cairo International Film Festival.
> * Taraneh Alidoosti, Best Actress Award Winner, Locarno
>International Film Festival, awarded in August 2002
> * Mary Apick, Actress, Best Actress Award Winner(1977)
> * Aylar, Model and former adult actress
> * Leila Arab, Musician
> * Mitra Hajjar, Actress
> * Soodabeh Salem, Musician and conductor
> * Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Director
> * Arfa Atrai, Santur Musician and writer
> * Catherine Bell, Actress JAG (Half)
> * Sima Bina, Singer.
> * Shiva Boloorian, Actress and play director
> * Nazanin Boniadi, Actress
> * Delkash (Esmat Bagherpour), Singer
> * Shohreh Solati, Singer
> * Golshifteh Farahani, Actress, Best Actress Award from the 22nd
>Nantes 3 Continents Festival and Symorgh for Best Actress from the
>16th International Fajr Film Festival
> * Leila Forouhar, Singer
> * Googoosh, Actress/Singer/Songwriter
> * Azita Hajian, Actress, Crystal Simorgh winner for the Best
>Actress, the 17th Fajr International Film Festival
> * Leila Hatami, Best Actress Award Locarno International Film
>festival and Montreal World Film Festival (2002)
> * Monika Jalili, Persian vocalist of Dutch-German origin
> * Ghashang Kamkar, Musician
> * Roya Kamyabfar, Jewellary Designer
> * Niki Karimi, Actress and director
> * Merila Zarei, Award-winning actress
> * Maryam Keshavarz, Director
> * Hana Makhmalbaf, Director
> * Samira Makhmalbaf, Director
> * Marjane Satrapi, film director and graphic novelist [15]
> * Rosie Malek-Yonan, Actor, director and writer. Rendition (2007
>Release)
> * Yassamin Maleknasr, Actress and director
> * Marzieh, Singer
> * Tahmineh Milani, Feminist filmmaker
> * Nooshafarin, Singer
> * Mahin Oskouei First female Iranian film director
> * Laleh Pourkarim, Singer
> * Parisa (Fatemeh Va'ezi), Doyen of the classical-Persian singers
> * Susan Roshan, Singer
> * Behnaz Sarafpour, Couture fashion designer in NYC
> * Shakila, Singer, winner of the Persian Academy Award
> * Bahar Soomekh, Actress (Crash and Saw III)
> * Tamara Stronach, played the Childlike Empress in the The
>Neverending Story
> * Qamar ol-Molouk Vaziri, Queen of the Persian Music
> * Mahla Zamani, Iranian fashion designer; expert on traditional
>Iranian dressings
> * Sarah Shahi, Actress
> * Hedyeh Tehrani, Actress
> * Darya Dadvar, Soprano soloist and composer
> * Shiva Rose, Actress and anti-war activist Interview
>
>[edit] Athletes
>
> * Leila Ebrahimi, runner
> * Laleh Seddigh, autoracing and rally champion of Iran
> * Aravane Rezai, tennis player
> * Janet Kohan-Sedq, runner
> * Padideh Boloorizadeh, Asian Pentathlon Champion, Captain of
>Iranian National Volleyball team
> * Shadi Tabatabai, Rank No.1 Tennis Player of Iran
>
>[edit] Politicians
>
> * Sibel Edmonds, PEN/NewmanÂ’s Own First Amendment Award winner
>[[16]] Iraninan born who effectively challenged FBI
> * Azar Majedi, Communist activist and politician.
> * Masoumeh Ebtekar, Iranian Vice President.
> * Goli Ameri, Republican politician.
> * Christiane Amanpour, CNN's chief international correspondent.
> * Fatemeh Haghighatjou, former Member of Parliament.
> * Elaheh Koulaei, former Member of Parliament and Professor of
>political sciences.
> * Farah Karimi, Iranian female Dutch Member of Parliament.[17]
> * Shahla Habibi
> * Nasrin Soltankhah
> * Fatemeh Javadi, Vice-President, and head of the Department of
>the Environment.
> * Dabir Azam Hosna, second female mayor in Iran
>
>[edit] Royalty
>
> * Purandokht, Sassanid crown princess and Queen.
> * Shahr-banu, Princess.
> * Nur Jehan, Wife of Mughal Emperor Jehangir
> * Seyyedeh Khatun, Ruler[citation needed].
> * Gauhar Shad, Queen.
> * Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari, Former Queen.
> * Ashraf Pahlavi, Princess.
> * Farah Pahlavi, Empress (Mohammad Reza Shah's wife).
> * Leila Pahlavi, Princess.
> * Mumtaz Mahal, Wife of Mughal Emperor Shah Jehan and inspiration
>for Taj Mahal.
>
>[edit] Activists
>
> * Elham Afroutan
> * Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Human Rights Activist, Singer and
>Songwriter, 2003 Miss World 1st runner up, Miss Canada 2003
> * Bibi Khatoon Astarabadi, Author and pioneer of Persian women's
>movement in modern Iran
> * Forough Azarakhshi, Pioneer of modern education for women in
>Mashhad
> * Azam Taleghani
> * Nooshin Ahmadi Khorasani
> * Golbarg Bashi, feminist academic and activist
> * Sediqeh Dowlatabadi, author and pioneer of Persian women's
>movement in modern Iran
> * Shirin Ebadi, human rights lawyer and judge, 2003 Nobel Laureate
> * Zahra Eshraghi, feminist activist
> * Lila Azam Zangeneh, writer and journalist
> * Roya Hakakian, Iranian-Jewish human rights activist and author
> * Mehrangiz Kar, human rights lawyer and winner of the Ludovic
>Trarieux International Human Rights Prize
> * Parvaneh Eskandari Dariush Forouhar's wife
> * Zahra Kazemi, slain political photographer
> * Elaheh Koulaei
> * Shahla Lahiji, human rights activist and a pioneer of Persian
>women's movement
> * Rosie Malek-Yonan, actor, author and activist who testified on
>Capitol Hill at U.S. House of Representatives in 2006 on behalf of the
>Assyrians in Iraq
> * Azar Nafisi, activist and novelist (Reading Lolita in Tehran)
> * Marina Nemat, activist, past political prisoner and author.
> * Shadi Sadr, feminist activist, lawyer and journalist
> * Shahla Sherkat, editor and a pioneer of women's movement in the
>modern Iran
> * Soraya Sepahpour, political analyst and writer
> * Badri Teymourtash, First female Iranian Doctor; a founder of
>School of Dentistry, Mashad University
> * Iran Teymourtash, journalist and early activist; daughter of
>Abdolhossein Teymourtash
> * Maryam Rajavi, President-Elect of the National Council of
>Resistance of Iran.
> * Parvin Darabi, author and activist
>
>[edit] In the news
>
> * Ashley Maryam Haghighi, supermodel, and dolce and gabbana spokes
>model 2008
> * Zahra Bani Ameri, Iranian physician
> * Behnaz Mozakka, Iranian woman who died in 2005 London bombing.
> * Nazanin Afshin-Jam, 2003 Miss World 1st runner up, Miss Canada
>2003, Human Rights Activist, Singer and Songwriter
> * Ramona Amiri, Miss World Canada 2005.[18]
> * Rudi Bakhtiar, TV news anchor.
> * Minu Barati, wife of Joschka Fischer, German Former Foreign
>Minister.[19]
> * Ladan and Laleh Bijani, conjoined twins.
> * Haleh Esfandiari, scholar, detainee [20]
> * Yasmin Le Bon, Supermodel.
> * Lily Mazahery, Lawyer, International Human Rights Activist,
>President of the Legal Rights Institute. [21]
> * Mandana Naderian, German TV hostess.[22]
> * Nazanin Fatehi, controversially sentenced to death for murder.
> * Shermine Shahrivar, Miss Europe 2005.[23]
> * Masoumeh Soltanbalaqi, Iran's First Woman Bus Driver [24]
> * Dineh Mohajer founded the $10 million-a-year Hard Candy when she
>was 22 years old [25]
> * Yasmin Parvaneh Yasmin Le Bon super model
>
>[edit] Others
>
> * Farrokhrou Parsa, Medical doctor and former Minister of
>Education (the first Iranian woman to became a deputy and later
>Minister of Education); executed in 1980, following the Iranian
>Revolution
> * Afsane Bassir Pour, Director of the Regional United Nations
>Information Center (appointed by Kofi Annan) [26], Formerly: Bureau
>Chief and International Correspondent for Le Monde
> * Parisa Khosravi, Senior Vice President and Managing Editor of
>International Newsgathering for CNN Worldwie [27]
> * Christiane Amanpour, CNNÂ’s Chief International Correspondent
>[28]
> * Atoosa Rubenstein, founder and the editor of CosmoGirl magazine
>and the editor of Seventeen[29], [30]
> * Zahra Rahnavard, First female chancellor of university after
>revolution
> * Sona Babai, Oldest naturalized Iranian American
>
>[edit] References
>
>
>[edit] See also
>
> * Iranian Women
> * Iran
>
>Retrieved from "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Iranian_women"
>
>Categories: All articles with unsourced statements | Articles with
>unsourced statements since May 2007 | Iranian women | Lists of women |
>Lists of Iranians
>
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