Zahra Rahnavard
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Zahra Rahnavard زهرا رهنورد | |
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| Born | October 31, 1945 |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Alma mater | University of Tehran |
| Occupation | Former chancellor of Alzahra University |
| Spouse | Mir-Hossein Mousavi |
| Children | Kokab, Narges and Zahra |
Zahra Rahnavard (Persian: زهرا رهنورد; born Zohreh Kazemi; October 31, 1945) is an Iranian artist and politician.
Early life
Rahnavard was born in Borujerd, Iran. Her father Haj-Fathali was a Fundamentalist Sh'ia and anti-Communist. After hearing of a gathering of Sh'ia clerics in Iran, Haj-Fathali emigrated to Khomein, Markazi Province where Zahra was born & raised.[citation needed] Zahra Rahnavard earned her bachelor and master's degrees in art and architecture from University of Tehran. She also has master's and PhD degrees from Islamic Azad University in Political science.[citation needed] Rahnavard was among the early revolutionaries against the Shah. In the last years of the Shah, she was close to Ali Shariati, a dissident Islamist leader. [citation needed]
Political life
She served as the chancellor of Alzahra University in Tehran, Iran, from 1998 to 2006, and as a Political Adviser to the former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami.[1][2] Rahnavard was the first Iranian woman appointed as a chancellor of a university since the Iranian Revolution of 1979. She was nominated to this post by former Minister of Science, Research and Technology, Mostafa Moin.[citation needed] After the election of president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2005 and the purging of reformist officials from the government, Rahnavard was removed or resigned from her position as the chancellor of Al-zahra University in 2006, replaced by Mahboubeh Mobasheri.[citation needed]
She is the wife of Iranian ex-prime minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi (the last Prime Minister of Iran) and has three daughters. Since Mousavi's entry into the 2009 presidential race she has actively participated in his campaign.
Rahnavard is the author of 15 books, including "Beauty Of Concealment And Concealment Of Beauty" where she says: "However, Islam believes that the Creator of man and the world, in order to regulate the human affairs and the society, has created man and woman in two different forms, and has assigned basically different roles to each of them in the society".[3][4]
References
- ^ Torfeh, Massoumeh (May 5, 2009). "Iran's first first lady?". The Guardian. London.
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- ^ http://www.al-islam.org/beautyofconcealment/
- ^ http://www.amazon.com/Beauty-Concealment-ebook/dp/B002BSGTOA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1245372093&sr=8-1