Marshall Manesh

Marshall Manesh

male, 59 years old
How I Met Your Mother, Andy Barker, P.I, Andy Barker, P.I., film actor, Mashhad, Pirate of the Caribbean At World's End…American, Persian-American, Iranian American
Marshall Manesh (born August 16, 1950) is an Iranian actor. Manesh was born in Mashhad, Iran. He has appeared in the television shows "Will &...
Avi Singer

Avi Singer

male
novelist, American foriegn policy, Persian-American, novellas, rolling, fairy tale…Iranian American
Avi Singer (born Kiarash Novinshoar July 14, 1988) is a Persian-American novelist and founding member of the artist collective Something Dancey, as...
Coleman Barks

Coleman Barks

male (Nobleboro, Maine, United States)
Muslim, University of Georgia, Sufism, University of California, Berkeley, iranologist, Persian language…American, persian, doctorate in Persian
Coleman Barks (b. 1937) is an American poet and world-renowned translator of Rumi and other mystic poets of Persia.
Hossein Nasr

Hossein Nasr

male
George Washington University, From tehran, Traditionalism, George Washington University faculty, Harvard University alumni, writer…American, persian, Iranian American
Nasr is an internationally acclaimed scholar .Seyyed Hossein Nasr, (1933-), a University Professor of the department of Islamic studies at George...
Mark Levine

Mark Levine

male
Grammy Awards of 2005, Street Signs, Ozomatli, Grammy, Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Arts…Persian language, American, persian
Mark LeVine is a professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. He's also a religious scholar and a musician. He received his B.A....
Abbas Milani

Abbas Milani

male, 60 years old
University of Hawaii alumni, fellow, shahid beheshti university, Ph.D., Iranian Center for Social Research, Doctor of Philosophy…American, persian, Iranian American, American Association of Political Science
Abbas Milani (born 1949) is an Iranian-American historian, Iranologist, and author. Milani is a Visiting Professor of Political Science and the...
Shaun Toub

Shaun Toub

male
Jewish, married with child, Jewish person, expatriate, lost, expatriate in the United States…persian, Iranian American, American
Shaun Toub is a film and television actor. He was raised in Manchester, England. At the age of 14, he moved to Switzerland and after a two year...
Hamid Dabashi

Hamid Dabashi

male, 58 years old
Iranian literary critic, Literary historian, Postcolonialism, postcolonial, Shi'a Islam, from Ahvaz…Persian literature, persian, American anti-war activist, American, Iranian American
Hamid Dabashi presents a comprehensive, passionate, and insightful personal account on the evolution of Iranian art cinema in Close Up - Iranian...
Yasmine Bleeth

Yasmine Bleeth

female, 41 years old
actress, Baywatch actor, Baywatch, not so hot without makeup, barefoot, Yasmine Amanda Bleeth…American, Persian language, Jewish American, persian
Yasmine began her career at the early age of 6 months, when she was featured as theJohnson & Johnson Baby. At age six, she appeared in a Max Factor...
Richard Nelson Frye

Richard Nelson Frye

male, 89 years old
Harvard University, pashto, pahlavi, iranologist, Office of Strategic Services, Persian language…American, persian
Richard Nelson Frye (c. 1920) is an American scholar of Iranian and Central Asian Studies, and Aga Khan Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at...