Mehrangiz Kar (Persian: مهرانگیز کار; born 10 October 1944 Ahvaz, Iran), a human rights lawyer from Iran, is an internationally recognized writer, speaker and activist who advocates for the defense of women’s and human rights in Iran and throughout the Islamic world. A common theme in her work is the tension between Iranian law…
Shirin Ebadi (Persian: شيرين عبادى, born 21 June 1947) is an Iranian Nobel laureate, lawyer, writer, teacher and a former judge and founder of the Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran. In 2003, Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her pioneering efforts for democracy and women’s, children’s, and refugee rights. She was the first Muslim woman and the…
Mehryar Mohri is a Professor and theoretical computer scientist[2] at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He is also a Research Director at Google Research where he heads the Learning Theory team. Career Prior to joining the Courant Institute, Mohri was a Research Department Head and later Technology Leader at AT&T Bell Labs, where he was a…
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…
