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3 unusual facts about Ziba Mir-Hosseini


Women's rights in Iran

Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Religious Modernists and the “Woman Question”: Challenges and Complicities, Twenty Years of Islamic Revolution: Political and Social Transition in Iran since 1979, Syracuse University Press, 2002, pp 74–95.

Ziba Mir-Hosseini

Along with these publications, Mir-Hosseini directed with Kim Longinotto two documentaries on current issues in Iran: Divorce Iranian Style (1998) and Runaway (2001).

Her publications include Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran (with Richard Tapper), A Study of Islamic Family Law in Iran and Morocco, Islam and Democracy in Iran: Eshkevari and the Quest for Reform (with Vanja Hamzic) and Control and Sexuality: the Revival of Zina Laws in Muslim Contexts (Women Living Under Muslim Laws, 2010).


Atossa Leoni

She lent her voice to narrate the audiobook version of Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns and Greg Mortenson's Three Cups of Tea, which are both best-selling books around the world.

Mehdi Hosseini

Mehdi Hosseini completed a composition course from the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna in 2007 during the summer courses at Mürzzuschlag, Austria where he studied with Nigel Osborne.


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