Abbas Kiarostami

Abbas Kiarostami

male, 69 years old
Persian literature, graphic designer, Art director, Film editor, illustrator, short film…A Taste of Cherry, From tehran, Leopard of Honour recipient, UniversityofTehranalumni, tehran
Abbas Kiarostami is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film producer. An active filmmaker since 1970, Kiarostami...
Shirin Ebadi

Shirin Ebadi

female, 62 years old
Human Rights, Islamic feminist, University of Tehran faculty, humanitarian, Islam and women, From tehran…UniversityofTehranalumni, woman of the middle class
Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian lawyer, human rights activist and founder of Children's Rights Support Association in Iran. On December 10, 2003, Ebadi...
Ehsan Yarshater

Ehsan Yarshater

male, 89 years old
Jewish, School of Oriental and African Studies, iranologist, Persian language, Qazvin, Encyclopedia Iranica…UniversityofTehranalumni, A Grammar of Southern Tati Dialects, Cambridge History of Iran, University of Tehran, University of London
Ehsan Yarshater (born April 3, 1920, Hamadan, Iran) is the Director of The Center for Iranian Studies and Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of...
William Chittick

William Chittick

male
Islam and other religions, iranologist, Persian language, UniversityofTehranalumni, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Tehran's Aryamehr Technical University…State University of New York at Stony Brook, tehran university, sharif university, stony brook university
William C. Chittick is a renowned scholar of Sufi thought and literature and Islamic philosophy. Born in Connecticut, he completed a Ph.D. in...
Mehdi Golshani

Mehdi Golshani

male, 70 years old
Sharif University of Technology faculty, Particle physics, Academic, Isfahan, Quantum Theory physicist, UniversityofTehranalumni…Member of ISSR, University of California, Berkeley alumni, University of California, Berkeley, Doctor of Philosophy, tehran university
Professor Mehdi Golshani (born 1939 in Isfahan, Iran) is a contemporary Iranian theoretical physicist and philosopher. He received his B.Sc. in...
Mohammad-Reza Aref

Mohammad-Reza Aref

male, 68 years old
Stanford University, Ph.D., From yazd, Sharif University of Technology, Yazd, University of Tehran…Isfahan University of Technology, Government minister of Iran, UniversityofTehranalumni, First Vice President of Iran, Stanford University alumni
Dr Mohammad Reza Aref (born 1941 in Yazd) is an Iranian (Persian) politician and university professor. From 2001 to 2005, he was the First Vice...
Kamal Kharazi

Kamal Kharazi

male, 64 years old
UniversityofTehranalumni, University of Houston, Islamic Research Institute, Iranian National Television, Islamic Research Institute in London, Minister of Foreign Affairs…Government minister of Iran, University of Tehran
Seyed Kamal Kharazi, was the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs as appointed by President Mohammad Khatami, serving for eight years from August...
Ali Javan

Ali Javan

male, 82 years old
inventor, National Inventors Hall of Fame, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, UniversityofTehranalumni, gas laser, From tehran…Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty, Ph.D. at Columbia University in New York City
Ali Javan is an Iranian inventor and physicist at MIT. He co-invented the gas laser in 1960, with William R. Bennett.
Morteza Avini

Morteza Avini

male, deceased (1993)
UniversityofTehranalumni, ray, tehran, documentary, tehran university, iran-iraq war
Photo of Avini Sayyed Morteza Avini (also spelled Aviny) (1947-1993) was a distinguished Iranian photographer of the Iran-Iraq war. Avini was born...
Mohammad Moin

Mohammad Moin

male, deceased (1970)
From rasht, UniversityofTehranalumni, University of Tehran faculty, Academic, linguist, pahlavi…tehran university, tehran, International Congress of Iranology
Born in Rasht, Iran on July 12, 1914 (according to his own notes) also reported as April 29, 1918 by some other sources and died in Tehran, Iran on...