Parisa Tabriz Is an Iranian-American computer security expert who works for Google as a Vice President of engineering. She chose the title “Security Princess” on her business card. Early life Parisa Tabriz was born to an Iranian father, a doctor, and an American mother, a nurse, of Polish-American descent.She grew up in the suburbs of Chicago…
Mohammed Mark Amin (Persian: محمد مارک امین) is an Iranian American motion picture producer, writer, director, and distributor who has been working in independent and mainstream cinema for more than two decades. Some of Amin’s film credits include The Prince and Me (2004), starring Julia Stiles, 1997’s Eve’s Bayou, starring Samuel L. Jackson, and 2002’s Frida, a biopic which…
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 –…
Maziar Bahari (Persian: مازیار بهاری; born May 25, 1967) is an Iranian-Canadian journalist, filmmaker and human rights activist.He was a reporter for Newsweek from 1998 to 2011. Bahari was incarcerated by the Iranian government from June 21, 2009 to October 17, 2009,[4] and has written a family memoir, Then They Came for Me, a New York Times best seller. His memoir is the basis…
