Iranian of the Day

University of Virginia professor Farzaneh Milani, who chairs the Department Middle of Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures in the College of Arts & Sciences, named "Woman of the Year" by the Iranian Women Studies Foundation at the group's annual conference in Cambridge, Mass. Last year, Milani authored "Words Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement". The book challenges what she sees as the narrow Western stereotype of the shrouded, oppressed Muslim woman, who is a captive of her faith and her veil.