Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar
The Baroness Afshar | |
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| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| In office 13 December 2007 – 12 May 2022 Life Peerage | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 21 May 1944 Tehran, Iran |
| Died | 12 May 2022 (aged 77) |
| Nationality | British |
| Spouse(s) |
Maurice Dodson (m. 1974) |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | University of York Murray Edwards College, Cambridge |
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| Religion | Shi'a Islam |
Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar OBE FAcSS (Persian: هاله افشار; 21 May 1944 – 12 May 2022) was a British professor and a life peer in the House of Lords. She was a prominent Muslim feminist, and characterises herself as a Socialist and a Shi'a Muslim. Her background is in equal opportunities in Britain, and before that, land reform and development in Iran, where she grew up, and journalism in both countries.
Afshar died on 12 May 2022 at the age of 77.[1]
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