Laleh Mehree Bakhtiar (born Mary Nell Bakhtiar; July 29, 1938 – October 18, 2020) was an Iranian-American Islamic and Sufi scholar, author, translator, and psychologist .She produced a gender-neutral translation of the Quran, The Sublime Quran, and challenged the status quo on the Arabic word daraba, traditionally translated as “beat” — a word that she said has been used as justification…
Nahid Angha is an Iranian-American Sufi scholar, author, lecturer and human rights activist, with a focus on women’s rights. She is the co-director and co-founder of the International Association of Sufism (IAS), founder of the International Sufi Women Organization, the executive editor of Sufism: An Inquiry. Nahid Angha is the main representative, of the IAS to the…
Colet Abedi is an Iranian American writer and producer. Colet Abedi was born in Virginia and grew up in Orange County, California. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English Literature at the University of California, Irvine and currently lives in Los Angeles, California Selected works In addition to working on many television programs broadcast…
Persian Cultural Circle of Colorado is the brainchild of a number of Iranian Americans who are passionate about sharing the Persian cultural heritage with the world in the form of arts, music, poetry and celebration of ideas. The organization was founded by Ms. Noshin Farjadi, a renowned diversity and inclusion…
Hossein Omoumi (born 1944) is an Iranian-born master musician of the ney (reed flute) composer, scholar, and teacher of Persian traditional music. He is the Maseeh Professor in Persian Performing Arts in the department of music within the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) Biography Omoumi started studying…
Farhang Foundation Mission Farhang Foundation is a member-supported, non-religious, non-political, not-for-profit organization established in 2008 to celebrate and promote Iranian art and culture for the benefit of the community-at-large. Constituencies Trustees, Council Members, Advisors & Supporters Iranians, Iranophiles, and Iran Scholars who support the mission of Farhang Foundation and our programs by donating their time, knowledge,…
Hessam Abrishami (Persian: حسام ابریشمی, born 1951) is an Iranian-born American artist, he works in multiple media including painting and sculpture. He currently lives in Miami, Florida; and has previously lived in Los Angeles, California; Perugia, Italy; and Shiraz, Iran. Biography Hessam Abrishami was born December 30, 1951, in Shiraz, Iran. He grew up in a middle class family, and…
Firoozeh Dumas (Persian: فیروزه دوما) (born June 26, 1965, in Abadan, Iran) is an Iranian-American writer who writes in English. She is the author of the memoirs Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America (2003) and Laughing without an Accent: Adventures of a Global Citizen (2008), and the semi-autobiographical novel It Ain’t so Awful, Falafel (2016). Early life…
Hamid Naficy (Persian: حمید نفیسی; born 1944) is an Iranian-born American filmmaker, writer, scholar, and educator. He is the Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in Communication at Northwestern University in the department of Radio/Film/Television, an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Art History, and a core member of the Middle East and North African Studies Program….
Ali A. Kiafar holds a master’s degree in architecture and city planning from the National University of Iran and a Ph.D. In urban and regional planning from the University of Southern California. From 1980 on, Dr. Kiafar has taught at the University of Southern California and University of California –…
