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Parvin Darabi ( fa, پروین دارابی; born 1941, Tehran) is an Iranian-born American activist, writer and defender of women’s rights. Background Darabi studied at California State University Northridge, University of Southern California and Pepperdine University, and California Coast University. Parvin worked as an electronic systems engineer, program manager, company president, and engineering consultant until 1994. From 1985 to 1990 she owned and operated her own Company PT Enterprises, in Mountain View, California where they developed the most sensitive Radar Detector presently on the German Naval Vessels active in NATO. Her elder sister, Homa Darabi, committed suicide in 1994 by burning herself in Tajrish square in Tehran to protest against the Iranian government. Since then, Parvin has become an activist. She wrote the book '' Rage Against the Veil'' and speaking out against Iran's regime and Islam. She also established the Homa Darabi foundation, her intention ...
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Parvin Darabi
Parvin Darabi ( fa, پروین دارابی; born 1941, Tehran) is an Iranian-born American activist, writer and defender of women’s rights. Background Darabi studied at California State University Northridge, University of Southern California and Pepperdine University, and California Coast University. Parvin worked as an electronic systems engineer, program manager, company president, and engineering consultant until 1994. From 1985 to 1990 she owned and operated her own Company PT Enterprises, in Mountain View, California where they developed the most sensitive Radar Detector presently on the German Naval Vessels active in NATO. Her elder sister, Homa Darabi, committed suicide in 1994 by burning herself in Tajrish square in Tehran to protest against the Iranian government. Since then, Parvin has become an activist. She wrote the book ''Rage Against the Veil'' and speaking out against Iran's regime and Islam. She also established the Homa Darabi foundation, her intention was ...
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Rage Against The Veil
''Rage Against the Veil: The Courageous Life and Death of an Islamic Dissident'' is a book by Parvin Darabi, an Iranian critic of Islam. The book is about Parvin's sister, Homa Darabi, who on February 21, 1994 committed suicide by immolation in Tajrish Square in Tehran to protest the "slavelike" treatment of women in Iran. The book details Darabi's life leading up to her death, addressing women's rights in Iran during the monarchy and after the Islamic Revolution."Rage Against the Veil: The Courageous Life and Death of an Islamic Dissident.." The Free Library. 2000 American Humanist AssociatioRetrieved 18 Aug. 2016 See also * Human rights in Islamic Republic of Iran *Women in Muslim societies *Statue of a Liberated Woman Statue of a Liberated Woman is a statue by Fuad Abdurahmanov. It was built in 1960 at the Public Square at the branching of Gurbanov and Cafar Cabbarli streets in Baku, Azerbaijan, and was inspired by the character of Sevil from the Jafar Jabbarly ... Furth ...
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Iranian Emigrants To The United States
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Critics Of Shia Islam
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1941 Births
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar Euthanasia Centre in Germany, in the first phase of mass killings under the Action T4 program here. * January 1 – Thailand's Prime Minister Plaek Phibunsongkhram decrees January 1 as the official start of the Thai solar calendar new year (thus the previous year that began April 1 had only 9 months). * January 3 – A decree (''Normalschrifterlass'') promulgated in Germany by Martin Bormann, on behalf of Adolf Hitler, requires replacement of blackletter typefaces by Antiqua. * January 4 – The short subject ''Elmer's Pet Rabbit'' is released, marking the second appearance of Bugs Bunny, and also the first to have his name on a title card. * January 5 – WWII: Battle of Bardia in Libya: Australian and British troops def ...
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List Of Famous Persian Women
This is a list of Iranian women, of all Iranian ethnic backgrounds, including both women born in Iran and women that are of the Iranian diaspora. Nobel laureates * Shirin Ebadi (born 1947), 2003 Nobel Laureate (Peace) Scientists and engineers File:Azar Andami.jpg File:AnoushehAnsari.jpg File:Maryam Mirzakhani in Seoul 2014.jpg File:Ալենուշ Տէրեան.jpg File:Maryam Sadeghi 2014.jpg File:Azita Emami-Neyestanak Caltech.jpg Business Academia File:Jaleh Amouzgar.JPG File:Shirin Ebadi 01.jpg File:Afsaneh Najmabadi-Evaz.jpg File:Azar Nafisi 2015.jpg File:Zahra Rahnavard, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Hamed Saber (cropped-01).jpg File:Pardis-Sierra-Leone.jpg Writers and poets File:Najmieh-Batmanglij 2985.jpg File:Camila Batmanghelidjh plenary.jpg File:Simin Daneshvar Cc0be0e4.jpg File:سیمین بهبهانی - Simin Behbahani.jpg File:Forough Farrokhzad 804a.jpg File:Roya Hakakian.jpg File:Porochista khakpour 2014.jpg File:Marjane Satrapi Cannes 2008.jpg ...
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List Of Former Muslims
Former Muslims or ex-Muslims are people who were Muslims, but subsequently left Islam. Although their numbers have increased, ex-Muslims still face ostracism or retaliation from their families and communities due to beliefs about apostasy in Islam. Converted to an Abrahamic religion Converted to Judaism * – Jordanian Muslim of Circassian origin, converted to Judaism upon marrying an Israeli Jewish pilot in secret in Vienna. She later became a spy for Mossad. An Arabic TV series called ''An Eastern Girl'' (فتاة من الشرق) (Fatah min Asharq) was made about her starring Suzan Najm Aldeen as Amina. The book (مذكرات أخطر جاسوسة عربية للموساد .. أمينة المفتي) was written about her. * * Avraham Sinai – Lebanese former Shi'ite who converted to Judaism. He served as an informant for the Israelis while serving in Hezbollah, until his actions were uncovered. He fled to Israel and subsequently converted. * Dario Hunter – Ameri ...
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Nikah Mut‘ah
''Nikah mut'ah'' ar, نكاح المتعة, nikāḥ al-mutʿah, literally "pleasure marriage"; temporary marriage or Sigheh ( fa, صیغه ، ازدواج موقت) is a private and verbal temporary marriage contract that is practiced in Twelver Shia Islam in which the duration of the marriage and the ''mahr'' must be specified and agreed upon in advance.Berg H"Method and theory in the study of Islamic origins" Brill 2003 , 9789004126022. Accessed at Google Books 15 March 2014. pp. 167-171,176Hughes T''A Dictionary of Islam'' Asian Educational Services 1 December 1995. Accessed 15 April 2014.Pohl F"Muslim world: modern muslim societies." Marshall Cavendish, 2010. , 1780761479277 Accessed at Google Books 15 March 2014. It is a private contract made in a verbal or written format. A declaration of the intent to marry and an acceptance of the terms are required as in other forms of marriage in Islam. According to Shia Muslims, Muhammad sanctioned ''nikah mut'ah'' (fixed-term m ...
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Tahoe Daily Tribune
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Truckee, California
Truckee is an incorporated town in Nevada County, California, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 16,180, reflecting an increase of 2,316 from the 13,864 counted in the 2000 Census and having the 316th highest population in California and 2114th in the United States. Name Truckee's existence began in 1863 as Gray's Station, named for Joseph Gray's Roadhouse on the trans-Sierra wagon road. A blacksmith named Samuel S. Coburn was there almost from the beginning, and by 1866 the area was known as Coburn's Station. The Central Pacific Railroad selected Truckee as the name of its railroad station by August 1867, even though the tracks would not reach the station until a year later in 1868. It was renamed Truckee after a Paiute chief, whose assumed Paiute name was Tru-ki-zo. He was the father of Chief Winnemucca and grandfather of Sarah Winnemucca. The first Europeans who came to cross the Sierra Nevada encountered his tribe. The friendly chief ...
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Women Of Truckee Making History
Parvin Darabi ( fa, پروین دارابی; born 1941, Tehran) is an Iranian-born American activist, writer and defender of women’s rights. Background Darabi studied at California State University Northridge, University of Southern California and Pepperdine University, and California Coast University. Parvin worked as an electronic systems engineer, program manager, company president, and engineering consultant until 1994. From 1985 to 1990 she owned and operated her own Company PT Enterprises, in Mountain View, California where they developed the most sensitive Radar Detector presently on the German Naval Vessels active in NATO. Her elder sister, Homa Darabi, committed suicide in 1994 by burning herself in Tajrish square in Tehran to protest against the Iranian government. Since then, Parvin has become an activist. She wrote the book '' Rage Against the Veil'' and speaking out against Iran's regime and Islam. She also established the Homa Darabi foundation, her intention ...
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