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Famous women

How many famous living Iranian women -- including bi-cultural (do-rageh) ones -- can you name?
100 Afarin Fereydoun Tavangary!

Just some examples:

* Janet Afary: Academic
* Lily Afshar: Guitarist
* Nazanin Afshin-Jam: Rights Activist
* Mahnaz Afkhami: Rights Activist
* Shohreh Aghdashloo: Actor
* Christiane Amanpoor: Journalist
* Goli Ameri: Politician
* Golnaz Amin: Academic
* Mahshid Amirshahi: Author
* Anousheh Ansari: Businesswoman
* Rudi Bakhtiar: Journalist
* Rakhshan Bani-Etemad: Director
* Simin Behbahani: Poet
* Catherine Bell: Actor
* Sima Bina: Singer
* Simin Daneshvar: Author
* Firoozeh Dumas: Author
* Goli Emami: Author
* Golshifteh Farahani: Actor
* Shirin Ebadi: Rights Activist
* Masoumeh Ebtekar: Politician
* Googoosh: Singer
* Nooshin Hashemi: Philanthropist
* Mehrangiz Kar: Rights Activist
* Niki Karimi: Actor
* Shahla Lahiji: Rights Activist
* Yasmin Parvaneh Le Bon: Model
* Azar Majedi: Rights Activist
* Samira Makhmalbaf: Director
* Tahmieh Milani: Director
* Shokooh Mirzadegi: Author
* Azar Nafisi: Author
* Gina Nahai: Author
* Afsaneh Najmabadi: Academic
* Maryam Namazie: Rights activist
* Shirin Neshat: Artist
* Partow Nooriala: Author
* Farah Pahlavi: Ex-Empress
* Parisa: Singer
* Shahrnush Parsipur: Author
* Nahid Rachlin: Author
* Maryam Rajavi: Politician
* Shadi Sadr: Rights Activist
* Marjane Satrapi: Author
* Sarah Shahi: Actor
* Shahla Sherkat: Publisher
* Ziba Shirazi: Singer
* Hedyeh Tehrani: Actor

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22-Mar-2009
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Bunyip

The woman in the photo

by Bunyip on Wed Mar 25, 2009 03:09 AM PDT

She is Golshifteh Farahani: Actor, I think.

And by the way, my dear daughter is missing from this list. She topped grade 12 (final year of high school) in the state of Queensland, Australia in 2007, and is now in her 2nd year of double degree in Mathematics and Aerospace Engineering at Uni of Queensland. And she is not 18 yet.


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amirkabear4u

Dear JJ

by amirkabear4u on Wed Mar 25, 2009 02:26 AM PDT

Who is this woman in the photo in your blog?

Thanks.


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Jahanshah Javid

Sorry, she IS famous

by Jahanshah Javid on Tue Mar 24, 2009 04:37 PM PDT

Mehbod, the title is "famous women" not "best women". And Maryam Rajavi is more well known than most on the list.


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Wrong Title

by Mehbod (not verified) on Tue Mar 24, 2009 04:31 PM PDT

Maryam Rajavi: Politician (assassin, murderer and Traitor (vatan foroosh)


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IRANdokht

Jahanshah jan

by IRANdokht on Tue Mar 24, 2009 04:25 PM PDT

Sorry I missed the "example" part! I scan most of the time anyway but you've got to admit those were good names I added too :o)   

IRANdokht

PS: migam ha

nashod ma yeh kalameh ba shoma ekhtelaat konim kharmagas-hayeh marekeh naparan vassat ;-)

 


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JJ:

by Farzad149 (not verified) on Tue Mar 24, 2009 02:39 PM PDT

Even if just a taste, this list is incomplete! It should have included Irandokht's name on it!


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Jahanshah Javid

Just a taste

by Jahanshah Javid on Tue Mar 24, 2009 02:22 PM PDT

Irandokht Jan, it's impossible to list every famous living Iranian woman. That's why on top of the list it says "Just some examples". This is just a taste.


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IRANdokht

and a few more?

by IRANdokht on Tue Mar 24, 2009 01:44 PM PDT

How come Googoosh made it to the list but Homayra and Leyla Forouhar and shohreh etc... didn't?

what's the criteria that makes googoosh stand out? (I know Banoo Parisa is not int he same league and is one of very few classical singers but googoosh?)

How about many others like Firouzeh Dumas, Asieh Namdar, Mary Apick, Esha Momeni, Azar Nafisi, Leila Milani etc...

IRANdokht


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Do rageh how? It is nice to

by do rageh (not verified) on Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:48 PM PDT

Do rageh how? It is nice to know these women are bi-cultural but it'd be nice to know what is their other culture? We know the Iran part.


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