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Googoosh

Iranian megastar who catapulted to stardom in Iran during the 1970s, only to be silenced by the Islamist regime that took power after the 1979 Islamic Revolution

Azar Besharat Moayeri

Edinburgh’s first female graduate in chemical engineering

Shirin Ebadi

Iranian Nobel-winning human rights activist

Narges Mohammadi

Nobel-winning Iranian human rights activist and writer

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.