Professor the Baroness Haleh Afshar will deliver a lecture on British/Iranian/Muslim identity, a topic very close to the essence of Edinburgh Iranian Festival.
Professor Afshar works in the Politics and Women’s Studies department in the University of York, and serves as a Crossbench Peer in the House of Lords.
The ceremony will include free refreshment, live piano music, and a private viewing of the Bazaar at the end of the ceremony.
FREE Admission – ticket needed
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Professor the Baroness Haleh Afshar
In 2005 Professor Afshar was awarded an OBE for services to equal opportunities. In 2009 she was made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She is also the Visiting Professor of Islamic Law at the Faculté Internationale de Droit Comparée at Strasbourg. She was born and raised in Iran where she worked as a journalist and a civil servant. She has served as the Chair for the British Association of Middle Eastern Studies and Deputy Chair of the British Council's Gender and Development Task Force. She has also served with the Advisory Group of the Cabinet Offices Women's Unit to work on raising gender awareness amongst civil servants who adjudicate on applications for asylum from women.
She is a founding member of the Muslims Women’s Network UK and a Patron of National Coalition Building Institute (Diversity Hub) since 1985 and patron of Solace since 2006. Since 2008 she has been the Patron of Women and Children First and the Patron of Refugee Action York. Since1998 she has been working with United Nation Association’s Services (UNAIS) and is currently its Honorary President.
Afshar has written two and co-authored/ edited/co-edited 14 books on questions relating to women and development; Islam and Iran. Her latest publication is Women in Later Life; Exploring Race and Ethnicity, with Mary Maynard, Myfanwy Franks and Sharon Wray, Open University Press 2008.
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