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Revision as of 20:26, 31 July 2012
- For general information about women in Iran, see Women in Iran.
This is a list of Iranian women. As one person may have contributed to more than one field, they can be categorized in multiple areas.
Nobel laureates
- Shirin Ebadi, 2003 Nobel Laureate (Peace)
Scientists and engineers
- Anousheh Ansari, First female space tourist, leading telecommunication entrepreneur, and namesake of the X Prize
- Nahid Shahmehri, Director of the Laboratory for Intelligent Information, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden.[1]
- Saba Valadkhan, American Association for the Advancement of Science Young scientist award
- Maryam Mirzakhani, Mathematician
Academics
- Pardis Sabeti, geneticist at Harvard Medical School
- Mina Bissell, Director of UC Berkeley Life Sciences Division.[2]
- Reihaneh Safavi-Naini, Cryptographer, professor of computer science, and head of Telecommunications and Information Technology Research Institute at University of Wollongong
- Janet Afary, Historian
- Shirin Ebadi, Lawyer, lecturer at Tehran University (2003 Nobel Laureate)
- Azar Nafisi, former lecturer at Tehran University and Johns Hopkins University
- 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, Chair of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literature Department, Professor of Persian and Comparative Literature, Washington University in St. Louis
- Camila Batmanghelidjh, Psychotherapist.
- 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 [4]
- 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 Dr. Nayereh Tohidi's Webpage
- Afsaneh Najmabadi, Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University.
- Noushafarin Ansari, Professor at University Of Tehran, Secretary General of Children's Book Council Of Iran
Authors and poets
- Roxana Shirazi, Author of The Last Living Slut: Born in Iran, Bred Backstage. Poet and journalist
- Marjane Satrapi, Writer, Persepolis,Embroideries and Chicken with Plums
- Mahnaz Afkhami, Writer
- Roya Hakakian, Writer and Poet
- Lobat Vala Poet
- Moniru Ravanipor, Writer
- Mana Aghaee, Poet, Translator and Bibliographer
- Mina Assadi, Poet and author, winner of the Hellman/Hammett awards (human Rights Watch) in New York in the year of 1996
- Sousan Azadi, memoirist
- Mahshid Amirshahi, Novelist
- Farzaneh Aghaeipour, Playwright and novelist
- Simin Behbahani, Poet and 1997 Nobel prize nominee.
- Niloofar Beyzaie, Playwright and theatre director
- Simin Daneshvar, Academic, novelist and translator of literary texts from several languages into Persian
- Parvin E'tesami, Poet (classical)
- Forough Farrokhzad, Poet (modern)
- Granaz Moussavi, Poet
- Rabe'e Ghazdari, Poet
- Sheema Kalbasi, Poet
- Sholeh Wolpe, 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
- Azar Nafisi, writer, "Reading Lolita in Tehran"
- 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
- Niloufar Talebi, Writer, translator, theater artist
- Shokooh Mirzadegi, Novelist, poet and social reformer
- Akram Monfared Arya, Author, poet
Visual and Fine Arts
Artists
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