American Shi'a Muslims - Abdul Ameer Yousef Habeeb, Ali Hossaini, Anisa Mehdi, Anousheh Ansari, Antonio Albadran, Asieh Namdar, Baba Rexheb, Ba (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Abdul Ameer Yousef Habeeb, Ali Hossaini, Anisa Mehdi, Anousheh Ansari, Antonio Albadran, Asieh Namdar, Baba Rexheb, Basam Ridha, Bruce Conde, Dawud Salahuddin, Gary Legenhausen, Hassan Al-Qazwini, Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah, Hossein Nasr, Husham Al-Husainy, Ibrahim al-Marashi, Mohamad Bazzi, Mohamad Jawad Chirri, Parisa Fakhri, Rend al-Rahim Francke, Reza Aslan, Rima Fakih, Saadi Simawe, Sayed Moustafa Al-Qazwini, Sean Stone, Shakir al Khafaji, Vali Nasr, Wafaa Bilal, Zainab Salbi. Excerpt: Anousheh Ansari (Persian: nee Raissyan; born September 12, 1966 in Mashhad, Iran) is an engineer and the Iranian-American co-founder and chairwoman of Prodea Systems. Her previous business accomplishments include serving as co-founder and CEO of Telecom Technologies, Inc. (TTI). The Ansari family is also the title sponsor of the Ansari X Prize. On September 18, 2006, a few days after her 40th birthday, she became the first Iranian in space. Ansari was the fourth overall self-funded space tourist, and the first self-funded woman to fly to the International Space Station. Her memoir, My Dream of Stars, co-written with Homer Hickam, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2010. Anousheh Ansari was born in Mashhad, Iran. She and her parents moved to Tehran shortly afterward. Anousheh witnessed the Iranian Revolution in 1979. She immigrated to the United States in 1984 as a teenager. Apart from her native Persian, she is fluent in English and French, and acquired a working knowledge of Russian for her spaceflight experience. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and computer science at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and her master's degree at George Washington University in Washington D.C. After graduation, Anousheh began work at MCI, where she met her future husband, Hamid Ansari. They...