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Mahnaz Afkhami

Born

Kerman, Iran

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http://www.mahnazafkhami.com

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Nonfiction, Women, Feminism

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Mahnaz Afkhami is Founder and President of Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP), and Executive Director of Foundation for Iranian Studies both based in Bethesda, Maryland. She was born in Iran, spent her teen years and early adulthood in the U.S. and returned to Iran at age 27 to teach English Literature. She later became the first and only Minister for Women’s Affairs in Iran. She was exiled in the U.S. while on official business with the UN in New York during the Iranian Revolution. Afkhami is currently in the midst of writing a new book on the history of the women's human rights movement from a unique "South-South" pov.

Mahnaz’s leadership in the non-governmental, academic, governmental, international, and activist spheres has helped enable ...more

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Average rating: 4.16 · 87 ratings · 15 reviews · 23 distinct works

	Women in Exile 3.90 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1994 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Other Side of Silence: A Memoir of Exile, Iran, and the Global Women's Movement really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Faith and Freedom: Women’s Human Rights in the Muslim World 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Eye of the Storm: Women in Post-Revolutionary Iran 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Muslim Women and Politics of Participation 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Safe And Secure: Eliminating Violence Against Women And Girls In Muslim Societies by Mahnaz Afkhami, Greta Hofmann Nemiroff, Haleh Vaziri 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1999	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leading To Choices: A Leadership Training Handbook For Women by Mahnaz Afkhami, Haleh Vaziri 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Claiming our rights: A manual for women's human rights education in Muslim societies by Mahnaz Afkhami, Haleh Vaziri 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Eye of the Storm: Women in Post-revolutionary Iran 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Towards A Compassionate Society 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The new information technology, indifferent to human suffering, does not accommodate humane needs unless we harness it and make it do so.”
― Mahnaz Afkhami, Leading To Choices: A Leadership Training Handbook For Women

tags: ict, leadership-training, technology, womens-rights

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“Women’s status in society has become the standard by which humanity’s progress toward civility and peace can be measured.”-Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images”
― Mahnaz Afkhami

tags: peace, society, women-s-rights

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“Rights and empowerment are interconnected: unless a substantial number of women in a community come to believe that they have rights and demand to exercise them, right remains an abstraction.”
― Mahnaz Afkhami, Faith and Freedom: Women’s Human Rights in the Muslim World

tags: empowerment, faith, freedom, religion, women-s-rights

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