Farideh Heyat ( fa, فریده هیئت, born 20 June 1949 in

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) is a British-Iranian anthropologist and a writer based in London. She is a retired lecturer of

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and

American University of Central Asia The American University of Central Asia (AUCA) (russian: Американский университет в Центральной Азии; ky, Борбордук Азиядагы Америка Университети), formerly the ''Kyrgyz ...

in Bishkek. Heyat is the author of numerous articles on women in Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan. She is also the author of the following books: ''Azeri Women in Transition: Women in Soviet and post-Soviet Azerbaijan'' and ''The Land of Forty Tribes''.

Early life

Heyat was born to Azeri parents. She spent her childhood in Tehran, growing up bilingual in

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and Azeri languages.

Education

After graduating from school, she moved to Turkey for a year and studied physics at Ankara University. To follow her higher education, she moved to London in 1967. Her first degree was in computing and statistics. Following that, she obtained a master's degree in computer science. She then switched her subject and began her studies in social anthropology at SOAS University of London, where she obtained an MA in anthropology, followed by Ph.D. in the subject.

Career

After a couple of years of working in the computer industry, she trained as a teacher and began teaching computing at further education colleges in London, until 1989. She started her career in teaching anthropology and development studies in SOAS after obtaining her Ph.D. in 1999. In 2002 she started teaching these subjects at American University of Central Asia.

Research

From 1992 until 1997, she conducted research on the historical situation of women in Azerbaijan and the post-soviet changes for them. During 2002 to 2003 she traveled and did research across Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan on women, culture, and society of the region.

bibliography

Books

*''Azeri Women in Transition: Women in Soviet and Post-Soviet Azerbaijan'', Routledge, 2002. According to

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, the book is held in 175 libraries *''Land of Forty Tribes'', Hertfordshire Press, 2015

Book chapters

*''Post-Soviet Islam in Azerbaijan'', Cultural Archetypes and Political Change in the Caucasus, Nino Tsetsishvili (ed.), Nova Science Publishers, 2010 *''Women and the Culture of Entrepreneurship in Azerbaijan'', Markets and Moralities: ethnographies of post-socialism, R. Mandell & C. Humphrey (eds.), London: Berg, 2002 *''Azeri Professional Women's Life Strategies in the Soviet Context'', Gender and Identity Construction: Women of Central Asia The Caucasus and Turkey, F.Acar and A. Ayata (eds.), E.J. Brill, Boston, USA, 2000 *''The Azaris'', Some Minorities in the Middle East, R. Tapper (ed.), Centre for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, SOAS, University of London, 1992

Journal articles

*''New Veiling in Azerbaijan: gender and globalizing Islam'', European Journal of Women's Studies, vol. 15, no.4, October 2008 *''Globalisation and Changing Gender Norms in Azerbaijan'', International Feminist Journal of Politics, vol. 8, no.3, September 2006 *''Re-Islamisation in Kyrgyzstan: gender, new poverty, and the moral dimension'', Central Asian Survey, vol.23, no.3-4, Dec. 2004

References

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