Fariba Alasvand
Fariba or Fareba (Persian: فریبا) is a Persian name and it means alluring, charming, attractive. It is popular in Iran and Afghanistan. The following individuals have the name: ;Surname *Behtash Fariba (b. 1955), retired Iranian football player ;Given name *Fariba Adelkhah (b. 1959), Franco-Iranian anthropologist * Fariba Ahmadi Kakar, the representative of Kandahar Province in Afghanistan 's Wolesi Jirga *Fariba Nawa (b. 1973), Afghan-American freelance journalist *Fariba Nejat Fariba or Fareba (Persian: فریبا) is a Persian name and it means alluring, charming, attractive. It is popular in Iran and Afghanistan. The following individuals have the name: ;Surname *Behtash Fariba Behtash Fariba ( fa, بهتاش فری ... (b. 1957), an Iranian-American community leader and social activist * Fariba Vafi (b. 1962), Iranian author Persian feminine given names {{Surname My name is Fariba ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Persian Language
Persian (), also known by its endonym and exonym, endonym Farsi (, ', ), is a Western Iranian languages, Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian languages, Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and used officially within Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan in three mutual intelligibility, mutually intelligible standard language, standard varieties, namely Iranian Persian (officially known as ''Persian''), Dari, Dari Persian (officially known as ''Dari'' since 1964) and Tajik language, Tajiki Persian (officially known as ''Tajik'' since 1999).Siddikzoda, S. "Tajik Language: Farsi or not Farsi?" in ''Media Insight Central Asia #27'', August 2002. It is also spoken natively in the Tajik variety by a significant population within Uzbekistan, as well as within other regions with a Persianate society, Persianate history in the cultural sphere of Greater Ira ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmenistan to the north, by Afghanistan and Pakistan to the east, and by the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south. It covers an area of , making it the 17th-largest country. Iran has a population of 86 million, making it the 17th-most populous country in the world, and the second-largest in the Middle East. Its largest cities, in descending order, are the capital Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan, Karaj, Shiraz, and Tabriz. The country is home to one of the world's oldest civilizations, beginning with the formation of the Elamite kingdoms in the fourth millennium BC. It was first unified by the Medes, an ancient Iranian people, in the seventh century BC, and reached its territorial height in the sixth century BC, when Cyrus the Gr ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south, Iran to the west, Turkmenistan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, Tajikistan to the northeast, and China to the northeast and east. Occupying of land, the country is predominantly mountainous with plains in the north and the southwest, which are separated by the Hindu Kush mountain range. , its population is 40.2 million (officially estimated to be 32.9 million), composed mostly of ethnic Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, and Uzbeks. Kabul is the country's largest city and serves as its capital. Human habitation in Afghanistan dates back to the Middle Paleolithic era, and the country's Geostrategy, strategic location along the historic Silk Road has led it to being described, pict ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Behtash Fariba
Behtash Fariba ( fa, بهتاش فریبا; born February 11, 1955) is a retired Iranian football player and now coach Club career He played for a few clubs, including Rah Ahan F.C., Pas Tehran and Esteghlal F.C. With Pas F.C. he won the Iranian Takht Jamshid in 1978. With Esteghlal F.C. he won the Tehran Province League in 1983 and 1985. International career He played for the Iran national football team and was a participant at the 1978 FIFA World Cup, where he was substituted in Iran's last match against Peru. He also competed at the 1980 Asian Cup The 1980 AFC Asian Cup was the 7th edition of the men's AFC Asian Cup, a quadrennial international football tournament organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The finals were hosted by Kuwait between 15 and 30 September 1980. The fie ... in Kuwait and reached the third place with the Iranian team as one of the top scorers of the tournament. External links * 1955 births Living people Iranian men's foo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fariba Adelkhah
Fariba Adelkhah (born 25 April 1959) is a French-Iranian Anthropology, anthropologist and academic at Sciences Po who is currently detained in Iran. Early life and career Born in Tehran, Adelkhah studied in France, first at Marc Bloch University, Université Strasbourg II and then at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. In 1990, she obtained a "very honourable" mention for her Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D. thesis on women in Iran, "an anthropological approach of post-revolutionary Iran: the case of Islamic women" (''Une approche anthropologique de l'Iran post-révolutionnaire. Le cas des femmes islamiques''), with Jean-Pierre Digard as her advisor. Since 2004, she has been a Research Director at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Fondation nationale des sciences politiques. As a researcher at the Centre for International Research of Sciences Po, Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), she authored a number of publications on Iran and A ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fariba Ahmadi Kakar
Fariba Ahmadi Kakar ( fa, فریبا احمدی کاکر) was elected to represent Kandahar Province in Afghanistan's Wolesi Jirga, the lower house of its National Legislature, in 2005. Born in 1965 in Kandahar, a report on Kandahar prepared at the Navy Postgraduate School stated she was a "self-educated teacher" and a member of the Pashtun ethnic group. She sits on the Communications Committee. In August 2013, while travelling with her children in Gazni, Afghanistan, she was kidnapped by the Taliban The Taliban (; ps, طالبان, ṭālibān, lit=students or 'seekers'), which also refers to itself by its state (polity), state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a Deobandi Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic fundamentalist, m ... who demanded the release of four Taliban prisoners in exchange for the release of Mrs Kakar. On 8 September 2013, she was freed in return for the release of several family members of Taliban fighters held in captivity. References ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fariba Nawa
Fariba Nawa (born 1973) is an Afghan- American freelance journalist who grew up in both Herat and Lashkargah in Afghanistan as well as Fremont, California. She was born in Herat, Afghanistan to a native Afghan family., by Fariba Nawa, Lemar-Aftaab (''newspaper''), January–December 2001, access date June 1, 2008 Her family fled the country during the Soviet invasion in the 1980s. She is trilingual in Persian, Arabic, and English. She has done her master's degree in Middle Eastern Studies and Journalism from New York University. In 2000 she ventured into Taliban controlled Afghanistan by sneaking into the country through Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkm .... She lived and reported from Afghanistan from 2000 to 2007. Furthermore, She travelled extensively in Afghan ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fariba Nejat
Fariba or Fareba ( Persian: فریبا) is a Persian name and it means alluring, charming, attractive. It is popular in Iran and Afghanistan. The following individuals have the name: ;Surname * Behtash Fariba (b. 1955), retired Iranian football player ;Given name *Fariba Adelkhah (b. 1959), Franco-Iranian anthropologist *Fariba Ahmadi Kakar, the representative of Kandahar Province in Afghanistan 's Wolesi Jirga *Fariba Nawa (b. 1973), Afghan-American freelance journalist * Fariba Nejat (b. 1957), an Iranian-American community leader and social activist *Fariba Vafi Fariba Vafi ( fa, فریبا وفی; born 21 January 1963) is an Iranian writer. She is of Azerbaijani descent. Biography Fariba Vafi was born in Tabriz on 21 January 1963 in a middle-class family. She started writing early in school and la ... (b. 1962), Iranian author Persian feminine given names {{Surname My name is Fariba ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fariba Vafi
Fariba Vafi ( fa, فریبا وفی; born 21 January 1963) is an Iranian writer. She is of Azerbaijani descent. Biography Fariba Vafi was born in Tabriz on 21 January 1963 in a middle-class family. She started writing early in school and later authored short stories. Her first short story collection ''Dar Omghe Sahneh'' (''In the depth of the Stage'') was published by Cheshmeh Publishers in 1996. Her second, ''Hatta Vagti Mikhandim'' 'Even While we Are Laughing''was published by "Nashr-e Markaz" Publishing co. in the fall of 1999 and translated into Armenian in 2020. In 2002 Nashr-e Markaz published Vafi's first novel ''Parandeye Man'' 'My Bird'' This novel received the Golshiri and Yalda awards and has had thirty-five printings. It was translated into English by Syracuse University Press in 2009, into Italian by Ponte 33 in 2010, into German in 2012 by Rotbuch Verlag and into Kurdish in 2011 and into Turkish 2016 and into Armenian in 2020. Her second novel ''Tarlan'' w ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |