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Mar 28
18:00 - 19:00
Islam and feminism
Spring 2012 Open Lecture Series
Speaker: Baroness Afshar
Prominent Iranian feminist Professor the Baroness Afshar, OBE, AcSS teaches Politics and Women's Studies at the University of York and serves as a Crossbench Peer in the House of Lords. She studied at York before completing her PhD at the University of Cambridge. She launched her writing career as a correspondent for Kayhan International, a daily English language newspaper in Tehran before returning to the UK in the mid - 1970s where she worked for the University of Bradford and then York. She has served on several bodies including the British Council and is currently Honorary President of the United Nations Association International Service and the Muslim Women's Network (UK). She received an OBE in 2005 for her services to equal opportunities and was made a life peer in 2007. She has written and edited over 15 books on Iran, Iranian politics, women and the developing world.
no booking required
Lecture Theatre,
Woolf College,
The Pavilion Giles Lane The University of Kent,
Canterbury,
Kent,
CT2 7BQ
United Kingdom
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Woolf College,
The Pavilion Giles Lane The University of Kent,
Canterbury,
Kent,
CT2 7BQ
United Kingdom
Canterbury map
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