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…
