Women Academics by Nationality - Iranian Women Academics, Haleh Esfandiari, Zahra Rahnavard, Noushafarin Ansari, Janet Afary, Jaleh Amouzgar (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Iranian Women Academics, Haleh Esfandiari, Zahra Rahnavard, Noushafarin Ansari, Janet Afary, Jaleh Amouzgar, Elaheh Koulaei, Lady Amin. Excerpt: Dr. Haleh Esfandiari (Persian: ) (b. March 3, 1940) is an Iranian American academic and the Director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. Her areas of expertise include Middle Eastern womens issues, contemporary Iranian intellectual currents and politics, and democratic developments in the Middle East, and she frequently writes, lectures, and organizes symposia on these topics. In 2007 she was detained, in solitary confinement, in Iran's Evin Prison for more than 110 days, between May 8 and August 21. Esfandiari, who comes from a Shia Muslim family, was born and grew up in Iran. Her mother was born in Austria. She has lived in the United States since 1980, having left Iran with her husband and daughter at the time of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. She holds dual U.S.-Iranian citizenship (she had retained her Iranian passport to facilitate visiting her elderly mother in Tehran). Esfandiari is married to Shaul Bakhash, a Jewish Iranian American professor of history and Persian studies at George Mason University. She met Bakhash in the early 1960s, when both were reporters at the Iranian newspaper Kayhan. They have a daughter, Haleh Bakhash (b. ca. 1967) and two granddaughters. According to her official Wilson Center bio, she was Deputy Secretary General of the Womens Organization of Iran (Szmn-i Zann-i rn; ), a royal-patronage society established in 1966 by Ashraf Pahlavi, the twin sister of the Shah of Iran. Esfandiari earned her Ph.D. at the University of Vienna. In the U.S., Esfandiari has served as a Fellow at the Wilson Center from... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=11129774