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Soraya Darabi

Soraya Darabi is the co-founder of Zady, a mission-driven content and commerce brand described best as “The Whole Foods of Fashion.
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Golrokh Bahri

She has a Master of Business Administration (MBA) focused on Marketing Management, General from Bahar business school.
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Rudi Bakhtiar

Rudi (Rudabeh) Bakhtiar is a producer for Thomson Reuters television.
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Nikoo Niknam

She has a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Islamic Azad University with five years of work experience in the print and design field.
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Nazanin Daneshvar

She received her Master’s degree in Information Technologies from Tehran Polytechnic University.
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Maria Khorsand

Maria Khorsand, M.Sc. Computer Science, serves as the Chief Executive Officer of SP Sveriges Tekniska Forskningsinstitut, Sweden.
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Lena Vafaey

Lena Vafaey: She migrated to Vancouver, Canada when she was 18 and received her bachelor of Engineering Geotechnics there.
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Goli Ameri

Goli Ameri is an Iranian-American diplomat and businesswoman.
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Farah Karimi

Farahnaz (Farah) Karimi is an Iranian-Dutch politician. She was member of the House of Representatives between 1998 and 2006 for GreenLeft.
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Christiane Amanpour

Christiane Amanpour is a British-Iranian journalist and television host.
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Mahtab Keramati

Mahtab Keramati was born on October 17, 1970 in Tehran, Iran. She is an actress and producer, known for Asre Yakhbandan (2015), Bist (2009) and Orca.
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Taraneh Alidoosti

Born on January 12th 1984 in Tehran. Her father is a former national team football player, Hamid Alidoosti. She started her career as an actress visiting Amin Tarokh's acting school in 2000. Soon she was chosen for her first role in I Am Taraneh, I Am Fifteen Years Old (2002) (I'm Taraneh, 15), ...
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Leila Hatami

Award-winning actress, Leila Hatami, was born on October 1, 1972 in Tehran, Iran, to legendary Iranian Director, Ali Hatami, and actress mother, Zari Khoshkam (Zahra Hatami). During her childhood, she appeared in several of her father's films including the historical TV series, Hezardastan (1988), ...
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Parinaz Izadyar

She is an Iranian actress and one of the most talented , rapidly fame growing celebrities among new generation stars of Iranian Cinema. Her fame is mainly due to her indispensable performance , outstanding face-acting and exceptional enunciation. Born in 1985 Iran,Babol (Mazandaran province) upon ...
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AN ODYSSEY OF IRANIAN-AMERICAN ISLAMIC SCHOLAR LALEH BAKHTIAR

Laleh Bakhtiar is an Iranian-American Muslim author, translator and clinical psychologist. She is also the first American woman to present a critical translation of holy Quran in English.  Born on July 29, 1938, in Tehran, Iran, to an Iranian father and American mother, she grew up in Los Angeles and Washington D.C. Bakhtiar has a...
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Narges Abyar

Narges Abyar (born 1970 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian author, film director and screenwriter best known for directing a famous film named Trench 143. The film is adapted from Abyar’s novel titled The Third Eye that narrates a story of a woman and her son during Iran’s sacred defense. Abyar graduated in Persian literature; she...
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Touran Mirhadi

She was an Iranian educator, author and researcher.[1] She was the founder of the Farhad School  a progressive kindergarten and elementary school in Tehran which was a source of many pedagogical innovations. She was also the co-founder of The Children’s Book Council of Iran  and The Encyclopedia for Young People  Touran Mirhadi (1927 – 2016) invested her life in creating methods in order to smooth out...
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Negar Omidvari

Negar Omidvari received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran in 2011. She earned the M.S degree in Biomedical Engineering from RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany in 2013. She is currently working as a researcher at the Department of Nuclear Medicine in Klinikum rechts der Isar, toward obtaining the Ph.D....
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Maria Saeedi

 Maria Saeedi is an Iranian craftswoman who preferred living in a small village in a desert area in her motherland instead of residing in the US, to empower Iranian rural women. “If I am an Iranian, what I have done for my country? Not considering the duties of the government, what is my responsibility toward...
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Forough Farrokhzad

It has been 49 years since a large group of Iranian literary and artistic figures, dressed in all black, gathered at Tehran’s Zahiroddoleh cemetery to bury 32-year-old poet Forough Farrokhzad. Farrokhzad was killed in a traffic accident. For many Iranians alive at the time, the memory is still painful even today. She is still talked...
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Lili Golestan

Iranian translator and artist Lili Golestan is to be honoured with France’s high cultural distinction dubbed the Order of Academic Palms.French Ambassador to Iran Bruno Foucher will award the medal to the Iranian artist at the Embassy in Tehran on November 17, the Persian service of Honaronline announced on Friday. France to honour Iran translator...
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Mina Torabi

An Iranian woman, who had been appointed as the country’s first female judge, believes that women’s sensitivity can help them in many cases despite the popular belief that women cannot judge because of their sensitive nature.  Mina Torabi, the first female judge in Iran and Lorestan province says the rising trend of women’s working in...
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Farinaz Koushanfar

Koushanfar received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science as well as an M.A. in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2005. From 2006 to 2015, she was a faculty in Rice University where she served as assistant, associate and full professor of electrical and computer engineering. Her primary research interests are...
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Parvin Etesami

In the most well known portrait of her, one of Iran’s most famous poets. She was born in March 1907 to a literary family. Her father,  Yousef Etesami Ashtiani, was a writer and a translator and her grandfather on her mother’s side was a minor poet. She was named Rakhshandeh at birth, but later she adopted...
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Sara Safari

Sara Safari is a mountain climber, professor, author and activist, championing education for girls in Nepal and around the world. She was born in Tehran in 1981, and began climbing a few years after she moved to the Los Angeles in 2002. She studied at UCLA and, after a stint working for large companies, she...
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NAZANIN DANESHVAR BECAME ONE OF THE MIDDLE EAST’S MOST SUCCESSFUL WOMEN IN BUSINESS

Nazanin has over 10+ years experience in the E-Commerce Field. She is the founder of Takhfifan.com, the most popular group buying website in Iran, and Tarinan.com (The firsts local search and review platform). She is an adaptable, proficient software developer in a wide variety of languages and methodologies. She is an outstanding Developer and talented software Engineer with proven expertise in...
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Taraneh Razavi, Doctor at Google

Dr. Taraneh Razavi is an internist in Palo Alto, California and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including El Camino Hospital and Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital. She received her medical degree from George Washington University School of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 20 years. She is one of 230...
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Maria Khorsand

Maria Khorsand, M.Sc. Computer Science, serves as the Chief Executive Officer of SP Sveriges Tekniska Forskningsinstitut, Sweden. Ms. Khorsand has been the President of the Financial Markets at OMX Technology AB since April 2004. She has been the President of Ericsson Technology Licensing since 2001. She worked within OMX Technology, as the Chief Executive Officer...
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Azadeh Hariri

“Her humble attitude and appearance is in contrast with her business acumen and sharp sense of presence,” an interviewer said of Azadeh Hariri. “More importantly, Hariri is busy making a positive difference in the lives of academically gifted yet financially constrained Iranians who wish to further themselves in America.” Azadeh (Azi) Maboudi Hariri was born in 1951...
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Hayedeh Shirzadi: Iran’s Waste Recycling Pioneer

From very early childhood, Hayedeh Shirzadi showed her determination to better her own life and the lives of others. When she was about to turn 60, she successfully launched an environmental initiative that made waste dumps mostly a thing of the past — the project had an impact on 70 cities and 200 villages in...
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Iran’s Lady of the Ice “Zohreh Abdollahkhani”

Zohreh Abdollahkhani — also known as Iran’s ice lady — won the ice climbing bronze medal at the Asian Championship in 2014, which took place in Cheongsong, South Korea. When she did, she became the first Iranian woman to ever win a medal in the sport for Iran at an international competition, and the only...
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Parvaneh Vosough-Iran’s Angel for children with Cancer

For years, residents of Tehran’s Zafar Street and people living next to Mahak Hospital were used to the sound and sight of Parvaneh Vosough’s Volkswagen Beetle. A kind and devoted doctor, several times a day she would drive from her clinic on Palestine Street to the hospital to visit children suffering from cancer and make...
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Professor Nasrin Moazami,Biotechnology pioneer

Nasrin Moazami is a biologist and a pioneer in biofuel technology. In 1995 she was awarded the Chevalier de I’Ordre des Palmes Académiques for her outstanding research. In 2015 she was appointed to UNESCO’s International Basic Sciences Program (IBSP). Moazami was born in 1945, and in 1976 received her Ph.D. from the faculty of medicine...
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Fatemeh Moghimi, Iranian Entrepreneur and Job Creator

Seyedeh Fatemeh Moghimi was born in 1958 in Tehran into a family of educators. Before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, she graduated in civil engineering in England and then went on to complete a PhD in development management. Moghimi is now the CEO of Sadid Bar International Transport. Although she now has over 30 years of...
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Meet the woman who set up Iran’s first all-female taxi company

Jamileh Sadeghi Jamileh Sadeghi was born into a large family of eight brothers and sisters in 1958 in Karaj, not far from Tehran. She is now the CEO of Iran’s first-ever all female taxi service; it is both owned and operated by an all-women workforce. Early on, her father, who was a farmer, recognized that...
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Meet the Iranian tycoon smashing gender stereotypes

Businesswoman, city councillor and social activist Fatemeh Daneshvar tells Al Jazeera that she fears ‘nothing but God’.  Tehran – Fatemeh Daneshvar moves easily around the room as she speaks of her accomplishments, pausing at one point to admire a photo of her children, and at another to flip through a glossy magazine packed with images of...
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Aseyeh Hatami

Aseyeh Hatami is the founder and Managing Director of IranTalent.com. Established in 2003, IranTalent is the leading online recruitment service in Iran, with a registered membership consisting of over half a million Iranian professionals, covering all sectors and job categories. By providing employers the opportunity to advertise vacancies on its website and search its database...
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Parisa Tabriz

Parisa Tabriz born 1983 is an American computer security expert. Forbes included her in their, “30 Under 30” list (30 Tech Pioneers under the age of 30) and she now works for Google as the self-appointed, Security Princess, and head of the team responsible for Chrome Security. She joined Google just a few months after...
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Roxana Moslehi

Roxana Moslehi, Ph.D. is a genetic epidemiologist. Most of her research is dedicated to the study of cancer and cancer precursors. Born in Iran and raised in Canada, she is currently an associate professor in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY), where she has been teaching multiple...
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Minoo Akhtarzand

Minoo Akhtarzand is the current governor of Jönköping County, Sweden. Minoo Akhtarzand was born and raised in Tehran. Her father was a high-ranking officer in the Shah’s army. At the age of 17 she moved to Stockholm to study at the Royal Institute of Technology. Later she held various managerial posts at the Swedish energy...
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Mona jarrahi

Born in Iran, professor Mona Jarrahi is one of Iran’s and also world’s most influential scientist, mathematician, physicist, and senior researcher and professors at the Terahertz Electronics Laboratory Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Professor Jarrahi is one of the youngest Assistant Professors at Electrical Engineering and Computer Science...
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Maryam Mirzakhani

Maryam Mirzakhani is an Iranian mathematician working in the United States. Since 1 September 2008, she has served as a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. In 2014, Mirzakhani became both the first woman and the first Iranian honored with the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics. The award committee cited her work...
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Anousheh Ansari

Anousheh Ansari  (born September 12, 1966, in Mashhad, Iran) is an Iranian-American engineer and co-founder and chairwoman of Prodea Systems. Her previous business accomplishments include serving as co-founder and CEO of Telecom Technologies, Inc.  In 2001 in a stock-for-stock transaction for 10.8 million shares of Sonus stock. Anousheh Ansari became “a vice president of Sonus...
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Roxanna Varza

Roxanne Varza currently leads Microsoft’s startup activities in France, running both Bizspark and Microsoft Ventures programs. In April 2013, Business Insider listed her as one of the top 30 women under 30 in tech.  Prior to Microsoft, she worked for several European startups and was also the Editor of TechCrunch France. She also co-founded the...
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Pardis Sabeti

Pardis C. Sabeti is an Iranian-American computational biologist, medical geneticist and evolutionary geneticist, who developed a bioinformatic statistical method which identifies sections of the genome that have been subject to natural selection and an algorithm which explains the effects of genetics on the evolution of disease. In 2014, Sabeti headed a group which used advanced...
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