Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

male, 52 years old
Time Magazine, kandahar, Producer, Parajanov Award winner, Fellini Gold Medalist, Persian-language film director…tehran, Fromtehran
Mohsen Makhmalbaff (born May 29, 1957, Tehran) is an influential and controversial Iranian film director, writer, editor, and producer. He is...
Reza Aslan

Reza Aslan

male, 37 years old
Harvard Divinity School alumni, marketplace, boston globe, Los Angeles Times, the washington post, The New York Times…Fromtehran, tehran
Reza Aslan earned a Bachelor of Arts in Religion from Santa Clara University, a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard University, a Master of...
Nazanin Afshin-Jam

Nazanin Afshin-Jam

female, 30 years old
Miss World 2003 delegate, Former Royal Canadian Air Cadets, Miss World, immigrant to Canada, activist, Iranian-Canadian…Fromtehran, tehran
Nazanin Afshin-Jam (born 1979 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-Canadian Singer, Songwriter, International Human Rights Activist, model, musician,...

`abdu'L-Bahá

male, deceased (1921)
Fromtehran, Bábís, tehran, Bahá'í holy family, Ásiyih Khánum, Navváb, Bahá'í central figure
`Abdu'l-Bahá was born in Tehran, Persia on May 23, 1844, the eldest son of Bahá'u'lláh and Ásiyih Khánum, Navváb. He was born on the very same n...
Reza Abedini

Reza Abedini

male, 42 years old
poster artist, University of Tehran faculty, tehran, Art Educator, Prince Claus Award, Meggs…Fromtehran, tehran university
Reza Abedini, (born 1967 in Tehran) is a world renowned Iranian designer and a professor of graphic design and visual culture at Tehran University....
Hossein Nasr

Hossein Nasr

male
George Washington University, Fromtehran, Traditionalism, George Washington University faculty, Harvard University alumni, writer
Nasr is an internationally acclaimed scholar .Seyyed Hossein Nasr, (1933-), a University Professor of the department of Islamic studies at George...
Simin Behbahani

Simin Behbahani

female, 82 years old
the lioness of Iran, Iranian women writer, tehran, The Iranian Writers' Association, Iranian women's rights activist, Fromtehran
Simin Behbahani (born July 20, 1927, Tehran, Iran) is one of the most prominent figures of the modern Persian literature and one of the most...
Fereydoon Moshiri

Fereydoon Moshiri

male, deceased (2000)
Fromtehran, Persian literature, poet, iranian, persian, tehran…University of Tehran, Tehran-Clinic
Fereydoon Moshiri (b. August 1926 in Tehran, Iran - d. October 24 2000 in Tehran) was one of the most prominent contemporary Persian poets who...
Mehdi Mahdavikia

Mehdi Mahdavikia

male, 32 years old
athletic, Iranian footballers not playing in Iran, First Bundesliga footballer, Footballer with 100 or more caps, Asian Footballer of the Year, Fußball-Bundesliga…tehran, Fromtehran
Mehdi Mahdavikia is an Iranian football player who currently plays for Eintracht Frankfurt in the German Bundesliga. He is captain of the Iranian...
Majid Majidi

Majid Majidi

male, 50 years old
film actor, life is beautiful, Fromtehran, Iranian Revolution, Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Chinese government…tehran, born in Tehran, Iran
Majid Majidi (born 1959 in Tehran) is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director, film producer, and screenwriter. Born in an Iranian...