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Minoo Moshiri
Minoo Moshiri ( fa, مینو مشیری) also known as Minou Moshiri, is an essayist, literary translator, film-critic and journalist. Early life and education Minoo Moshiri was born in Tehran, Pahlavi Iran, Iran. She attended primary and secondary school in the French Jeanne d’Arc School, Tehran, Ecole Jeanne d’Arc of Tehran. She then left for England to attend the well-known finishing school "Queenwood Ladies' College" in Eastbourne. She attended the University of Exeter for six years to receive an M.A. Honours Degree in French and English Literature. For her Master of Arts, M.A. thesis she chose Diderot and the 18th century and studied with the famous Diderotiste, the late Geneva-born Professor Emeritus Robert Niklaus. Career Upon returning home to Tehran, she became an essayist, literary translator, film-critic and journalist and continues to be active as such. She contributes essays, literary-criticisms and other articles as well as film-reviews in Persian, English a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tehran
Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most populous city in Iran and Western Asia, and has the second-largest metropolitan area in the Middle East, after Cairo. It is ranked 24th in the world by metropolitan area population. In the Classical era, part of the territory of present-day Tehran was occupied by Rhages, a prominent Median city destroyed in the medieval Arab, Turkic, and Mongol invasions. Modern Ray is an urban area absorbed into the metropolitan area of Greater Tehran. Tehran was first chosen as the capital of Iran by Agha Mohammad Khan of the Qajar dynasty in 1786, because of its proximity to Iran's territories in the Caucasus, then separated from Iran in the Russo-Iranian Wars, to avoid the vying factions of the previously ruling Iranian dynasties. The capital has b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
