Category Archives: Women

Salome MC – Iran’s first female rapper

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Salome Mc (Persian: سالومه, born 1985), is a female rap artist from Iran.[1]

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Being questioned about being a female rapper in Iran, she mentioned in several interviews that she wouldn’t say she faced many chal­lenges just because she was a female. “I might be the first female rap­per to ever step in a stu­dio in Iran, yes, but from peo­ple around me I mostly got courage after they got over the sur­prise. The other chal­lenges that you might guess was there for my male coun­ter­parts too. Of course you get a cer­tain amount of sexist com­ments from lack of com­mon sense or edu­ca­tion, but that is a global prob­lem. “[5]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salome_MC

Iran from Viewpoint of a Japanese Pianist

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“Now, when I go over my memories of that exceptional trip after having stayed in Iran for a few days, I see that the most prominent part of those memories is warm and honest treatment as well as the hospitality of the Iranian people. Everybody there hails you with a polite smile. I, having been born in a country where respectful treatment of others is of high importance, was in a good position to appreciate the respectful treatment of the Iranian people.

What I saw from the Iranian people during my short trip [to that country] was that they are always serene, well-mannered, and ready to offer all kinds of assistance and cooperation. I wondered why I didn’t know anything about the good and well-mannered people of Iran, who are very cultured and take pride in their culture and arts, before this trip?” –Noriko Ogawa

Noriko Ogawa is a Japanese pianist that traveled to Iran on an invitation extended to her by the Japanese Embassy in Tehran. She had musical performances in the cities of Tehran and Shiraz.

Read more at Payvand | Concert in Tehran: Iran from Viewpoint of a Japanese Pianist

Marjan Kalhor: Iranian Alpine Skier

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Marjan Kalhor (born July 21st, 1988 in Tehran) is an Iranian alpine skier who became the first Iranian woman to participate in the Winter Olympics, at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. She was her nation’s flag bearer in the Opening Ceremony. Kalhor competed in the slalom and giant slalom competitions. She finished 60th among 86 competitors in the Giant Slalom and 55th among 87 participants in the Slalom.

Kalhor started skiing at the age of four, in Dizin, a ski resort in the Alborz mountain range, north of Tehran. At the age of eleven, she won a national competition, and later competed and won medals in Turkey and Lebanon. She has not yet competed in a World Cup event.

Sources: Wikipedia | Marjan Kalhor, zimbio.com

Female Iranian motor sports stars

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“At 28, Laleh Seddigh is known for her stunning looks and legendary driving skills…A PhD student from Tehran, she has been nicknamed “a little Schumacher” after the German Formula One champion. She has now been given the title of Iran’s best female racing driver. ”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4349341.stm

“Nora Naraghi is barred by her gender from taking a motorcyle out on Iran’s roads, but has defied discrimination to become the country’s motocross champion…Although women are banned from riding motorcycles on the streets in Iran, scenes of women riding pillion on motorbikes are not unusual.But unlike Saudi Arabia, which is also deeply conservative, they are allowed to drive cars. Some even drive buses and long-haul trucks.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatnews/6857478/Irans-female-motocross-champion-gets-uphill-ride.html

“Iran’s female motorsports champion Zohreh Vatankhah”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/lipstick-revolution-irans-women-are-taking-on-the-mullahs-1632257.html?action=gallery
https://www.facebook.com/zohreh.vatankhah.1356

Nasrin Sotoudeh – Sakharov prize winner and human rights lawyer

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Nasrin Sotoudeh (also spelled Sotoodeh, Persian: نسرین ستوده‎) is a human rights lawyer in Iran. She has represented imprisoned Iranian opposition activists and politicians following the disputed June 2009 Iranian presidential elections as well as prisoners sentenced to death for crimes committed when they were minors.[1] Her clients have included journalist Isa Saharkhiz, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, and Heshmat Tabarzadi, the head of the banned opposition group Democratic Front of Iran.[2]

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Sotoudeh was arrested in September 2010 on charges of spreading propaganda and conspiring to harm state security[1] and was imprisoned in solitary confinement in Evin Prison.[3] In January 2011, Iranian authorities sentenced Sotoudeh to 11 years in prison.

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Prior to her arrest, Sotoudeh represented activists and journalists such as Isa Saharkhiz, Heshmat Tabarzadi, Nahid Keshavarz, Parvin Ardalan, Omid Memarian…

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Shirin Ebadi – the first iranian woman to receive a Nobel Peace Prize

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Shirin Ebadi (Persian: شيرين عبادى‎ Širin Ebādi; born 21 June 1947) is an Iranianlawyer, a former judge and human rights activist and founder of Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran. On 10 October 2003, Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her significant and pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights, especially women’s, children’s, and refugee rights. She was the first ever Iranian to receive the prize.

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She was admitted to the law department of the University of Tehran in 1965 and in 1969, upon graduation, passed the qualification exams to become a judge. After a six-month internship period, she officially became a judge in March 1969. She continued her studies in University of Tehran in the meantime to pursue a doctorate’s degree in law in 1971. In 1975, she became the first woman president of the Tehran…

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Professor Parvaneh Vosough: “Iran’s Mother Theresa”

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Parvaneh-VosoughProfessor Parvaneh Vosough was born in 1935 in Tafresh, central Iran. She received her MD in general medicine in 1963 in Tehran University of Medical Science. She completed her specialty and sub-specialty in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Illinois Universities, and she attended Washington University for her graduate course. In 1971 she returned to Iran and practiced her profession in Ali Asghar Hospital in Tehran.

Her colleagues say that many times, she had been proposed residence of US and European countries for research and lucrative income, but that she had chosen providing free service to her country’s cancer-suffering children.

In the course of her medical services, Professor Vosough treated many cancer-suffering children around the world, giving them health, and she had never married. Perhaps for this reason, she was called ‘Iran’s Mother Theresa’ by some people.

Source: Payvand News | Prof. Parvaneh Vosough, angel of Iran’s Cancer Children, passes away

Aravane Rezaï – Iranian–French tennis player

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Aravane Rezaï is a professional Iranian–French tennis player.

She has defeated many top players on the WTA circuit, such as Justine Henin, Venus Williams, Victoria Azarenka, Maria Sharapova, Dinara Safina, Francesca Schiavone, Caroline Wozniacki, Marion Bartoli, Flavia Pennetta, Jelena Janković and Ai Sugiyama. Her career high rank was No. 15, achieved on October 11, 2010.

Rezaï competed for Iran at the Women’s Islamic Games, winning gold in 2001 and 2005.

Rezaï is now based in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

Read more at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aravane_Reza%C3%AF

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Shadi Paridar – Iranian chess woman grandmaster

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Played for Iran in the Women’s Asian Team Chess Championships of 1995, 2003, 2005 and 2008.

FIDE rating: 2250

Peak rating: 2274

Asian Indoor Games results for Shadi Paridar:
Silver – 2007 Macau – Individual rapid
Bronze – 2007 Macau – Team rapid
Bronze – 2009 Quang Ninh – Team blitz

Shadi Paridar in wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadi_Paridar

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Noora Naraghi – Iran’s female motocross champion

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Noora Naraghi was born in Teheran on May 30th 1988. She is the first women’s Iran motocross champion. In 2009, she won Iran’s first-ever Female Motocross Championship.

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Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noora_Naraghi
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatnews/6857478/Irans-female-motocross-champion-gets-uphill-ride.html

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Laleh Seddigh – Iranian female racing driver

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A PhD student from Tehran, she has been nicknamed “a little Schumacher” after the German Formula One champion. She has been given the title of Iran’s best female racing driver. The story is featured in a BBC TV documentary called “Girl Racer”.

The documentary can be viewed here:

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She earned international fame by fending off a host of male competitors to become Iran’s national rally champion in 2005.

More infos:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laleh_Seddigh
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/14/international/middleeast/14seddigh.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all

The best posts on Iranian women:
https://theotheriran.com/tag/women/

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Iran: Females outperform males in university entrance exams

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The university entrance exam, known as the konkour, is a standardized test used as one of the means to gain admission to higher education in Iran.

Of the 36 with the highest scores, 19 are females and 17 are males. Most of them are from Tehran.

1,286,813 students took this year’s university entrance exam, 773,653 of whom (about 60%) were females and 513,160 were males.

Source:
http://www.payvand.com/news/10/aug/1008.html

Atousa Pourkashiyan – Iranian female chess grandmaster

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Atousa Pourkashiyan, Iranian chess Woman Grandmaster

Atousa Pourkashiyan (Persian: آتوسا پور کاشیان‎, born 16 May 1988) is an Iranian chess Woman Grandmaster.

In April 2010 she won Women’s Asian Chess Championship in Subic Bay.

FIDE rating: 2321

Peak rating: 2374 (May 2011)

Other successes:
Asian Games 2006: Bronze
Asian Indoor Games 2009: Bronze

Atousa Pourkashiyan in Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atousa_Pourkashiyan

Sepideh Mahabadi: Second woman to win gold in the history of the International Olympiads in Informatics

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Sepideh Mahabadi received 2011 her B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, Iran. That year she moved to the United States to continue her studies. In 2013 she received her M.Sc. and in 2017 her PhD from the MIT.

When she was 18 years old she made history at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) after receiving a gold medal. She was the only female contestant to win a gold medal that year and the second woman to win a gold medal in the history of the Olympiad.

The IOI is one of the most prominent computer science competitions in the world. In 2007 the event was held in Croatia and gathered nearly 300 top students from 75 countries. Sina Sadeghian, Saeed Reza Sedighin, and Hesamodin Akhlaghpor, the other members of Iran’s team, won three silver medals.

Sepideh Mahabadi is a postdoctoral research scientist with an appointment at the Simons Collaboration on Algorithms and Geometry based at Columbia University.

More articles on Iranian successes in science competitions

Sources: Press TV, MIT, Simons Foundation, stats.ioiinformatics.org (IOI 2007)

Iranian doctor received the award of the greatest world woman inventor in 2013

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An Iranian doctor from Mashad Medical Science University received the award of the greatest world woman inventor in Geneva International Festival for Inventions in year 2013.

Dr. Zahra Alizadeh Thani, who is a specialist in radiology of heart and coroners, also received gold medal and special award of 41st Geneva Festival in addition to her award as the world inventor.

Dr. Alizadeh Thani has invented a device to determine level of tightness of heart coroners.

The device also makes it possible to determine if the patient needs angioplasty.

Zahra Alizadeh Thani - Greatest world women inventor 2013

http://www.payvand.com/news/13/apr/1119.html

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Iranian women’s futsal team wins silver at Asian Indoor Games

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The Japanese squad defeated the Iranians 2-1 on Friday at the Songdo Global University Campus.

The Iranian women’s futsal team advanced to the final of the 2013 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games by defeating Indonesia 4-0. Fereshteh Karimi scored two goals for Iran and Nasimeh Sadat Gholami and Niloufar Ardalan also found the back of the net in the semifinal match.

Iranian team members lift their captain, Leila Eqbali, in the air. Eqbali is quitting the games after 9 years

More photos: Payvand News of Iran

Maryam Tousi: A girl with the speed of the wind

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Maryam Tousi (born 5 December 1988 in Tehran) is an Iranian sprint athlete. She is the Iranian record holder in 100 m, 200 m, 400 m and 4×400 m relay. She studied Physical Education at University of Tehran.

Medal record
16px-Gold_medal_icon.svg400m – 2014 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Hangzhou, China
16px-Gold_medal_icon.svg400m – 2012 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Hangzhou, China
16px-Silver_medal_icon.svg 4 x 400m relay – 2016 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar
Bronze_medal_icon.svg 4 x 400m relay – 2010 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Tehran, Iran
Bronze_medal_icon.svg 60m – 2014 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Hangzhou, China

Sources: Payvand News of Iran, Wikipedia | Maryam Tousi, ISNA, Facebook | Maryam Toosi (official page), IAAF | Athlete profile (personal best)

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Iranian Woman Among Winners Of UNESCO’s Young Scientist Award

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Atieh Kazemi Mojarad is among the recipients of UNESCO’s Young Scientist Award. She won the award for her research in “sustainable development of Biosphere Reserves through the promotion of key ecosystem services.”. Kazemi Mojarad has received her Masters degrees in Ecology from Azad University and in Environmental Studies from Shahid Beheshti University.

Sources: UNESCO, Payvand News of Iran

Iranian women win 3 gold medals in Wushu World Championship

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The 2013 Wushu World Championship was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Iran was second in the medal count, winning a total of ten medals: seven gold and three bronze.

The Iranian gold medal winners in women’s sanda (sparring) are:
– Elaheh Mansourian (women’s sanda 52kg)
– Maryam Hashemi (women’s sand 65kg)
– Shahrbanu Mansourian (women’s sanda 75kg)

Hanieh Rajabi won a bronze medal in women’s taolu (changquan, compulsory routine).

The Iranian men won a total of four gold and two bronze medals. In men’s sanda:
– Mohsen Mohammad Seifi: gold medal (65kg category)
– Amir Fazli: gold medal (80kg category)
– Hamid Reza Gholipour: gold medal (85kg category)

Men’s taoulu medal winners:
– Mohsen Ahmadi, Ebrahim Fathi, Navid Makvandi: gold in diulian (group routine)
– Farshad Arabi: bronze in nanquan and bronze in nandao.

The World Wushu Championships (WWC) are held every two years and are organised by the International Wushu Federation (IWUF).

Wushu is both an exhibition and a full-contact sport derived from traditional Chinese martial arts. It was developed in China after 1949, in an effort to standardize the practice of traditional Chinese martial arts. The term wushu is Chinese for “martial arts” (“Wu” = military or martial, “Shu” = art). In contemporary times, wushu has become an international sport through the International Wushu Federation (IWUF), which holds the World Wushu Championships every two years; the first World Championships were held in 1991 in Beijing and won by Yuan Wen Qing. Competitive wushu is composed of two disciplines: taolu (forms) and sanda (sparring).

Gold medalist in women’s sanda 52kg category at the 2013 World Wushu Championship
Gold medalist in women’s sanda 65kg category at the 2013 World Wushu Championship
Gold Medalist in women’s sanda 75kg category at the 2013 World Wushu Championship

Sources: Payvand News of Iran, Wikipedia | 2013 World Wushu Championships, Wikipedia | Wushu