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Zahra Rahnavard
Born
Zohreh Kazemi
(1945-08-19) 19 August 1945 (age 78)
Borujerd, Iran
Nationality
Iranian
Alma mater
University of Tehran Islamic Azad University
Occupation
Academic
Title
Former Chancellor of Alzahra University
Political party
The Green Path of Hope (2009–)
Association of the Women of the Islamic Republic (1987–)
Movement
Islamic feminism[1]
Spouse
Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Children
3
Zahra Rahnavard (Persian: زهرا رهنورد; born Zohreh Kazemi; 19 August 1945) is an Iranian academic, artist and politician.[2] Rahnavard is a university professor, artist, and intellectual who was under house arrest from February 2011 to May 2018. In 2009, Foreign Policy magazine named her one of the world's most distinguished thinkers.[3] She is the wife of former Iran Prime Minister Mir Hussein Musavi. In part of her work, she has underlined the need for men to respect the laws of the hijab in the same way as women, as well as a general activist for women's rights in the Middle East.[4]
^Ziba Mir-Hosseini, "FEMINIST MOVEMENTS iv. IN THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC", Encyclopædia Iranica, IX/5, pp. 498-503, available online at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/feminist-movements-iv (Retrieved 30 December 2012).
^"Zahra Rahnavard - O Magazine 2010 Power List". Oprah. 2010. Archived from the original on 18 September 2010. Retrieved 15 September 2010.
^"Zahra Rahnavard: The Story of a Career". Tavaana. 19 August 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
^"Rahnavard, Zahra | Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers - Credo Reference". search.credoreference.com. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
ZahraRahnavard (Persian: زهرا رهنورد; born Zohreh Kazemi; 19 August 1945) is an Iranian academic, artist and politician. Rahnavard is a university professor...
revolution. Mir-Hossein Mousavi (under the pseudonym Hossein Rah'jo) and ZahraRahnavard exhibited artwork here during the same period. Ali Shariati Morteza...
opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi and their wives ZahraRahnavard and Fatemeh Karroubi were being detained in the prison after abduction...
of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine ZahraRahnavard (born 1945), first female chancellor of a university, Alzahra University...
Abdolhossein Zarrinkoob, writer and historian Loris Tjeknavorian, musician ZahraRahnavard, artist and politician Mostafa Abdollahi, director and actor Jafar...
opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, and their wives Fatemeh Karroubi and ZahraRahnavard, were taken from their homes by security forces to Heshmatiyeh Prison...
supported Mir-Hossein Mousavi in 2009 Presidential election. She meet with ZahraRahnavard, Mousavi's spouse in May 2009 and was one of the members of Mir-Hossein...
with his daughters in September 2011. Musavi, together with his wife, ZahraRahnavard, has been under house arrest since February 2011. After a week, some...
campaign, drawing comparisons to another high-profile political spouse, ZahraRahnavard, the wife of Mir Hossein Mousavi. Candidates campaigning openly with...
across the globe" to work for the release of three opposition leaders — ZahraRahnavard, Mir Hossein Mousavi, and Mehdi Karroubi — who have been confined to...
prominent non-Jewish revolutionaries such as Mir-Hossein Mousavi and ZahraRahnavard. AJII's charter was very close to the ideals of the revolution. It...
deaths attributed to Mortazavi is that of Canadian-Iranian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi. On 7 September 2009, Iranian police, with permission from the judiciary...
Order of Culture and Art First Order Mohammad Khatami June 7, 2005 18. ZahraRahnavard Order of Culture and Art Second Order Mohammad Khatami June 7, 2005...
Fatemeh Haghighatjou, Elaheh Koulaei, Fatemeh Javadi, Marzieh Dabbaq and ZahraRahnavard came after the revolution. Other Iranian women, such as Goli Ameri...
See, e.g., Tahereh Saffarzadeh, Masumeh Ebtekar, Marzieh Dabbaq and ZahraRahnavard. Esfandiari, Golnaz. "Iran: Number Of Female University Students Rising...
Presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi and his wife, ZahraRahnavard in the protests of 15 June which recorded as the biggest unrest since the 1979...
prevented from participating. Opposition figures Mir Hossein Mousavi, ZahraRahnavard, and Mehdi Karroubi remained under house arrest or detention as of...
in the mentioned hussainiya. Among them were Mir-Hossein Mousavi, ZahraRahnavard, Morteza Momayez, Kazem Chalipa, Hossein Khosrowjerdi, and Habibollah...
house arrest of the 2009 presidential candidates (Mir-Hossein Mousavi, ZahraRahnavard, and Mehdi Karroubi). This was in reaction to a recent Rouhani's speech...
rights violations in Iran". Former Czech President Václav Havel and ZahraRahnavard, the wife of opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi, also called for...
the only Special Award for Innovative Content at Venice's Orizzonti. ZahraRahnavard, academic, artist, and politician, former member of university's board...
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