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Azadeh Zarei
Azadeh () is a Persian female given name meaning free, free-minded also means someone noble, Persian. People named Azadeh include: People * Azadeh Ensha, Iranian-American journalist * Azadeh Moaveni (born 1976), Iranian-American journalist and writer * Azadeh Shafiq (1951–2011), Iranian royal and journalist * Azadeh Shahshahani Azadeh N. Shahshahani is an American human rights attorney based in Atlanta. She is the legal and advocacy director for Project South. She previously served as president of the National Lawyers Guild and director of the National Security/Immigran ..., Iranian-American human rights attorney Fictional characters * Azadeh (Shahnameh), a character in Shahnameh of Ferdowsi {{given name Persian feminine given names Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azadeh Ensha
Azadeh Ensha (, born in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-American journalist who works for ''The New York Times''. The New York Times She has written for the business, foreign, metro, style and culture desks. Personal Fluent in Persian and French, Ensha graduated summa cum laude, from and received a master's degree from theColumbia University Graduate School of Journalism
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Azadeh Moaveni
Azadeh Moaveni (Persian: آزاده معاونى, born 1976) is an Iranian-American writer, journalist, and academic. She is the former director of the Gender and Conflict Program at the International Crisis Group, and is Associate Professor of Journalism at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Institute of Journalism. She is the author of four books, including the bestselling '' Lipstick Jihad'' and ''Guest House for Young Widows'', which was shortlisted for numerous prizes. She contributes to ''The New York Times'', ''The Guardian'', and ''The London Review of Books''. Education Moaveni was born in Palo Alto, California, to Iranian parents, who left Iran before the 1979 revolution. She was educated at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she studied politics and history. At Oakes College, the center of the university's History of Consciousness program, she ran programming at Bayit Elie Wiesel, and served as editor-in-chief of the university's newspaper, ''City o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azadeh Shafiq
Azadeh Shafiq (; 1951 – 23 February 2011) was an Iranian royal and a member of the Pahlavi dynasty, being daughter of Ashraf Pahlavi. Following the Iranian revolution that toppled her uncle, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, she exiled in Paris and involved in opposition activities to the Islamic regime in Iran. Early life and education Shafiq was born in 1951. She was the daughter of Ashraf Pahlavi, twin sister of the Shah Mohammad Reza, and her Egyptian second husband, Ahmad Shafiq. She had a brother, Shahriar. Although her parents were divorced in 1960, her father did not return to Egypt and stayed in Tehran to raise his children. She was educated in German school in Tehran and in France. Personal life and activities Shafiq married twice. She married Farshad Vahid in 1972 and they had a son, Kamran (born 1973). She divorced from Vahid in 1975. She later wed a former Iranian military officer. She began to live in Paris following the Iranian revolution. Later her brother joined her an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azadeh Shahshahani
Azadeh N. Shahshahani is an American human rights attorney based in Atlanta. She is the legal and advocacy director for Project South. She previously served as president of the National Lawyers Guild and director of the National Security/Immigrants' Rights Project for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Georgia. Early life and education Shahshahani was born in Tehran a few days after the 1979 Iranian Revolution The Iranian Revolution (, ), also known as the 1979 Revolution, or the Islamic Revolution of 1979 (, ) was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979. The revolution led to the replacement of the Impe .... She received her Juris Doctor, J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, where she served as article editor for the ''Michigan Journal of International Law''. Shahshahani also has a master's degree in modern Middle Eastern studies, Middle Eastern and African studies, North African studies from the University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azadeh (Shahnameh)
Āzādeh (; ) is a Roman tribute girl harpist in Shahnameh and other works in Persian literature. When Bahram-e Gur (Bahram V) was in al-Hirah, Azadeh became his favorite companion. She always accompanies Bahram in hunting. The tale of Azadeh begins when she is invited by the king to a hunting trip. During the hunt, four gazelle turned up. When the king asked her, which gazelle to shoot, she challenged the king to make a female gazelle into a male, a male into a female and to pin the leg of one to its ear. There are sources that cite the impossibility of the tasks as a ploy to prevent the king from slaying the animals. Bahram completed all her requests. He severed the horns of the male gazelle with his two-headed arrow so that the animal resembled a female. Then, double-headed arrow hit the female gazelle on its forehead so that it resembled horns. Instead of praising the king, Azadeh stated that the king was assisted by demons. Bahram got angry and used his horse to trample Azadeh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persian Feminine Given Names
Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the Indo-European family, native language of ethnic Persians *** Persian alphabet, a writing system based on the Arabic script * People and things from the historical Persian Empire Other uses * Persian (patience), a card game * Persian (roll), a pastry native to Thunder Bay, Ontario * Persian (wine) * Persian, Indonesia, on the island of Java * Persian cat, a long-haired breed of cat characterized by its round face and shortened muzzle * The Persian, a character from Gaston Leroux's ''The Phantom of the Opera'' * The Persians, an ancient Greek tragedy play written by the Athenian playwright Aeschylus in the 5th century BC * ''Persa'' (play) or ''The Persian'', comedy by the Roman playwright Plautus * Persian, a generation I Pokém ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
