Azar Besharat Moayeri
Edinburgh’s first female graduate in chemical engineering
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Shirin Ebadi
Iranian Nobel-winning human rights activist
Narges Mohammadi
Nobel-winning Iranian human rights activist and writer
Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Vociferous in the fight for equality, she remains a feminist role model and inspiration through the ages, planting the seeds for an end to traditionalism and the birth of female liberation in India and Bangladesh.
Amanda Ajamfar
Amanda Ajamfar is a fiction writer based in New York.
Yassamin Ansari
US Representative from Arizona
Solmaz Sharif
Iranian-Turkish-American poet
Porochista Khakpour
Iranian-American novelist and journalist
Jasmin Moghbeli
American astronaut
Farnaz Fassihi
Iranian-American journalist who, for over 20 years, has covered all sorts of wars and uprisings across the Middle East, in places like Iran, Afghanistan, Israel, the West Bank, Turkey, Syria, and more. She is the United Nations Bureau chief for the New York Times and was a senior writer and war correspondent for the Wall Street Journal for 17 years, based in the Middle East.