Haleh Esfandiari

Haleh Esfandiari

female, 69 years old
American Middle Eastern studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholar, American, Iranian-American, middle east, Academic…IranianAmerican, iranian
Haleh Esfandiari is director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where she had earlier been a...
Anousheh Ansari

Anousheh Ansari

female, 43 years old
space tourist, IranianAmerican, entrepreneur, Ansari X Prize, Women engineer, Muslim…Iranian-American, American, American space travelers, iranian, American National Standard Institute
Anousheh Ansari (born 12 September 1966) is the Iranian-American co-founder and chairman of Prodea Systems, Inc. Her previous business...
Reza Pahlavi

Reza Pahlavi

male, 49 years old
University of Southern California alumni, Heir apparent who never acceded, Pretenders to the Persian throne, pahlavi, From tehran, Crown Prince of Iran…Middle Eastern American, IranianAmerican, American, Iranian royalty
Reza Pahlavi is the former Crown Prince of Iran, the eldest son of late Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his Empress Consort, Farah Diba. He...
Azadeh Moaveni

Azadeh Moaveni

female, 33 years old
Iranian women writer, iranian, writer, journalist, IranianAmerican, American…Iranian-American
Azadeh Moaveni is an Iranian-American journalist and writer.
Ray Takeyh

Ray Takeyh

male
Yale University, The National Interest, Iranian-American, Alumni of the University of Oxford, University of California, Berkeley, The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer…IranianAmerican, American Middle Eastern studies
Ray Takeyh is a senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. His areas of specialization are Iran, political reform...
Vali Nasr

Vali Nasr

male, 49 years old
Harvard University, American, Academic, Muslim, Naval Postgraduate School faculty, Tufts University…iranian, Iranian-American, IranianAmerican
Vali Reza Nasr (b. 1960) is an Iranian-American academic and scholar, as well as Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law...
Azar Nafisi

Azar Nafisi

female, 54 years old
Iranian women writer, Reading Lolita in Tehran, Reading Lolita in Tehran A Memoir in Books, Ph.D., Literary critic of English, Academic…IranianAmerican, iranian
Azar Nafisi, Ph.D. (born December 1955) is an Iranian professor and writer who currently resides in the United States. Nafisi's bestselling book...
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…American Public Media, Iranian-American, Iranian Revolution, American, iranian
Reza Aslan earned a Bachelor of Arts in Religion from Santa Clara University, a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard University, a Master of...
Shiva Rose

Shiva Rose

female
IranianAmerican, Brentwood, iranian, actor, the practice, legal drama
Shiva Rose McDermott, née Afshar, is an actress of Iranian and Irish descent. Since 19th November 1995, she has been married to American actor D...
Cyrus Kar

Cyrus Kar

male, 48 years old
terrorist, improvised explosive devices, Wrongly accused terrorism suspects, From tehran, Civil Rights, university of phoenix…American, IranianAmerican, iranian
Cyrus Kar (born March 18, 1961 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-born American film director, part-time professor at the University of Phoenix, and...