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Abdullah Entezam
Abdollah Entezam was an Iranian Diplomat (alternatively: Seyed Abdollah Entezam), son of Seyed Mohamad also known as "Binesh Ali", leader of Safi Ali Shahi order of dervishes in Iran. His father was also a diplomat. Older brother of Nasrollah Entezam, also a career diplomat and Iranian minister of Health (spelt Nasrullah by Iranian biographer Abbas Milani). His son was Hume Horan, US ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Born in Tehran 1895 (1274) according to Encyclopædia Iranica, but according to Marvin Zonis he was born in 1907.The Political Elite of Iran Princeton, Marvin Zonis, Princeton University Press, 1971 Encyclopædia Iranica says of him: "ʿAbd-Allāh Enteẓām diplomat and politician (b. 1274 Š./1895 in Tehran, d. 2 Farvardīn 1362 Š./22 March 1983. He was the eldest son of Khorshidlaqa Ghaffari and Sayyed Moḥammad Entezam-al-Saltaneh. He was educated in Tehran at the German Technical School, Dar al-Funun and the School of Political Science. After this Abdollah joined th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdollah Entezam
Abdollah Entezam was an Iranian Diplomat (alternatively: Seyed Abdollah Entezam), son of Seyed Mohamad also known as "Binesh Ali", leader of Safi Ali Shahi order of dervishes in Iran. His father was also a diplomat. Older brother of Nasrollah Entezam, also a career diplomat and Iranian minister of Health (spelt Nasrullah by Iranian biographer Abbas Milani). His son was Hume Horan, US ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Born in Tehran 1895 (1274) according to Encyclopædia Iranica, but according to Marvin Zonis he was born in 1907.The Political Elite of Iran Princeton, Marvin Zonis, Princeton University Press, 1971 Encyclopædia Iranica says of him: "ʿAbd-Allāh Enteẓām diplomat and politician (b. 1274 Š./1895 in Tehran, d. 2 Farvardīn 1362 Š./22 March 1983. He was the eldest son of Khorshidlaqa Ghaffari and Sayyed Moḥammad Entezam-al-Saltaneh. He was educated in Tehran at the German Technical School, Dar al-Funun and the School of Political Science. After this Abdollah joined th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nasrollah Entezam
Nasrollah Entezam (also spelled Naṣr-Allāh Enteẓām; fa, نصرالله انتظام; 16 February 1900 – 19 December 1980) was a diplomat, politician, and minister, as well as Iranian Ambassador to the United States and France. He was the first Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations from 1947 to 1950 and President of the UN General Assembly during its fifth session in 1950. Biography Early life Nasrollah Entezam was born in Tehran, Iran on 16 February 1900 into a Qajari family. His father Al-Saltanah Entezam and older brother Abdullah Entezam were also diplomats and politicians and his grandfather was the Minister of Order under Naser al-Din Shah Qajar. His mother, Khorshid Laqa Ghaffari, was descended from the Ghaffari family of Kashan. Nasrollah and his brother both studied at the German Embassy School in Tehran. Entezam then studied political science at the University of Tehran and law at the University of Paris. Career In 1918, following World War I, Entezam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbas Milani
Abbas Malekzadeh Milani ( fa, عباس ملکزاده میلانی; born 1949) is an Iranian-American historian, educator, and author. Milani is a visiting professor of Political Science, and the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of the Iranian Studies program at Stanford University. He is also a research fellow and co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. In Milani's book, ''Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Modernity in Iran'' (2004, Mage Publications), he has found evidence that Persian modernism dates back to more than 1,000 years ago. Biography Milani was born in Iran to a prosperous family and was sent to California when he was sixteen, graduating from Oakland Technical High School in 1966 after only one year of studies. Milani earned his B.A. in political science and economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1970; and his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Hawaii in 1974. With his then-girlfriend Feres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hume Horan
Hume Alexander Horan (August 13, 1934 – July 22, 2004) was an American diplomat and ambassador to five countries, who has been described as "perhaps the most accomplished Arabic linguist to serve in the U.S. Foreign Service." Early life Horan was born to Margaret Robinson Hume and Abdullah Entezam in 1934 in Washington, D.C. His mother came from a well-to-do family; her grandfather served as a diplomat in President Abraham Lincoln's administration, her own father had been the mayor of Georgetown, and Stephen Vincent Benét was a cousin.Kaplan, Robert D. ''The Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite''. New York: The Free Press, 1993. p. 201 Entezam was an Iranian diplomat. Horan's parents divorced just three years after his birth (though they had been married for over a decade), and Margaret Hume subsequently married a newspaperman named Harold Horan. The family then moved to Argentina. Entezam went on to become the Iranian Foreign Minister and head of National Iranian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ambassadors Of Iran To Germany
The Iranian ambassador in Berlin is the official representative of the Government in Tehran to the Federal Government of Germany. List of representatives } , Ambassador. Establishing diplomatic relations , Naser al-Din Shah Qajar , Wilhelm I , 1901 , 1280 , - , , 1280 , Mahmoud Khan Alamir ''Ehtesham os-Saltaneh'' , fa, محمود خان علامیر احتشامالسلطنه , Ambassador , Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar , Wilhelm II , 1906 , 1285 , - , , 1285 , Hovhannes Khan Masehian ''Mosaed os-Saltaneh'' , hy, Յովհաննէս Մասեհեան , Chargé d'affaires and then Ambassador , Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar , Wilhelm II , 1910 , 1288 , - , , 1289 , Mahmoud Khan Alamir ''Ehtesham os-Saltaneh'' , fa, محمود خان علامیر احتشامالسلطنه , Ambassador , Ahmad Shah Qajar , Wilhelm II , 1911 , 1290 , - , , 1290 , Hovhannes Khan Masehian ''Mosaed os-Saltaneh'' , hy, Յովհաննէս Մասեհեան , Ambassador , Ahmad Shah Qajar , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marvin Zonis
Marvin Zonis (September 18, 1936 – November 15, 2020) was an American political economist who focused on Middle Eastern politics and history and an emeritus professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he taught courses on international political economy, leadership, and e-commerce. He was the first professor at the Business School to teach a course on digital technologies. Education and career He was educated at Yale University, the Harvard Business School, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a Ph.D. in political science, and the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, where he received training in psychoanalysis. Zonis also consulted to corporations and professional asset management firms throughout the world, helping them to identify, assess, and manage their political risks. Zonis was a member of the Board of Directors of CNA Financial, the global insurance and financial services firm, and was also on the Board of Advisors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Persian Sphinx
''The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution'' is a political historical biography of Amir Abbas Hoveyda by Iranian-American historian and author Abbas Milani. The book covers his early life, rise in politics and 12 year tenure as the longest serving prime minister of Iran from 1965 to 1977 during the reign of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi until his trial and execution in the aftermath of the Iranian revolution in 1979. Title and content The book is a product of Milani's four-year extensive study. The title of the book makes an analogy between Hoveyda and the Sphinx which is a figure used in Persian art and sculpture. The Sphinx is "a mythical creature with the body of a lion, most often with a human head and sometimes with wings." The book provides a detailed biography of Hoveyda from his childhood in a middle-class family with aristocratic roots, his education at distinguished institutions in Beirut, London, and Brussels, his career, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amir-Abbas Hoveida
Amir-Abbas Hoveyda ( fa, امیرعباس هویدا, Amīr 'Abbās Hoveyda; 18 February 1919 – 7 April 1979) was an Iranian economist and politician who served as Prime Minister of Iran from 27 January 1965 to 7 August 1977. He was the longest serving prime minister in Iran's history. He also served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in Mansur's cabinet. After the Iranian Revolution, he was tried by the newly established Revolutionary Court for "waging war against God" and "spreading corruption on earth" and executed. Early life and education Born in Tehran in 1919 to Habibollah Hoveyda (Ayn ol-Molk), a seasoned diplomat, who was mostly active during the latter years of the Qajar dynasty, and Afsar ol-Moluk, a descendant of the royal family that Hoveyda would serve for much of his adult life. Hoveyda's father was a lapsed adherent of the Baháʼí Faith and Hoveyda himself was not religious. He was the nephew of Abdol Hossein Sardari, also known as " Sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hassan Taghizadeh
Sayyed Hasan Taqizādeh ( fa, سید حسن تقیزاده; September 27, 1878 in Tabriz, Iran – January 28, 1970 in Tehran, Iran) was an influential Iranian politician and diplomat, of Azeri origin, during the Qajar dynasty under the reign of Mohammad Ali Shah, as well as the Pahlavi dynasty under the reign of Reza Shah and Mohammad Reza Shah. Taqizadeh was also a prominent scholar; his studies on Iranian calendars remain reference work up until now. Although in the modern political history Taqizadeh is known as a secular politician, who believed that "outwardly and inwardly, in body and in spirit, Iran must become Europeanized", he came from a traditional Islamic Sayyed-family (descendant of Muhammad). His father, Sayyed Taqi, was a clergyman and when Sayyed Hasan became a mullah, it seemed likely that he would follow in his father's footsteps. From an early age Taqizadeh showed interest in enlightened ideas and the Western concept of constitutionalism. This interest c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persian Language
Persian (), also known by its endonym Farsi (, ', ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and used officially within Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan in three mutually intelligible standard varieties, namely Iranian Persian (officially known as ''Persian''), Dari Persian (officially known as ''Dari'' since 1964) and Tajiki Persian (officially known as ''Tajik'' since 1999).Siddikzoda, S. "Tajik Language: Farsi or not Farsi?" in ''Media Insight Central Asia #27'', August 2002. It is also spoken natively in the Tajik variety by a significant population within Uzbekistan, as well as within other regions with a Persianate history in the cultural sphere of Greater Iran. It is written officially within Iran and Afghanistan in the Persian alphabet, a derivation of the Arabic script, and within Tajikistan in the Tajik alphabet, a der ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Wright
Sir Denis Arthur Hepworth Wright, GCMG (23 March 1911 – 18 May 2005) was a British diplomat. A long-serving ambassador to Iran, Wright's expertise and knowledge of Iran and Persian culture led him to write and edit several books on the region, as well as conduct a covert mission to inform the deposed Shah of Iran that he would not be granted asylum in Britain. Early life and education Wright was born in 1911 in Kingston upon Thames (then in the county of Surrey), at the house of his father's parents. His father, Arthur Edgar Wright, was assistant director of public works in Hong Kong, where Wright spent his childhood attending the Peak School. In 1921, he returned with his family to England, where he attended Brentwood School in Essex.John Graham‘Wright, Sir Denis Arthur Hepworth (1911–2005)’ ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Jan 2009. Accessed 10 December 2013. From 1930 to 1932, Wright studied at the University of Oxford, reading m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
