Mandana Zandian, born in Esfahan, Iran in 1971 and graduated from Shahid Beheshti Medical School in 1997. She worked as a researcher at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles for 20 years, specializing in research on aggressive forms of advanced cancers. Dr. Zandian is also a published poet and author actively…
Janet Afary Janet Afary is an author, feminist activist and researcher of history, religious studies and women studies. She is a professor and the Mellichamp Chair in Global Religion and Modernity at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Career She received her M.A. Degree from University of Tehran. In 1991, she received her…
Abbas Amanat, historian, scholar & author, Abbas Amanat (Persian: عباس امانت) is an Iranian-born American historian, scholar, author, editor, and professor. He serves as the William Graham Sumner Professor of History at Yale University and Director of the Yale Program in Iranian Studies. Early life and education Amanat is a graduate of Alborz High School (Tehran, 1966). He received…
Yara Shahidi Yara Sayeh Shahidi (born February 10, 2000 ) is an American actress and producer. She began her career as a child, appearing in the films Imagine That (2009), Butter (2011) and Alex Cross (2012). Shahidi gained recognition for her starring role as the oldest daughter Zoey Johnson in the ABC sitcom Black-ish (2014–2022) and its spin-off series Grown-ish…
